#performing

Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people …. It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience. ↗

— Leonard Rose

#nervousness #performing #public-speaking #business

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#elements #important #listening #most #performing

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!' ↗

— Samantha Barks

#alive #business #girl #go #go for it

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#changes #fashion #i #like #music

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#bang #best #buck #else #give

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl. ↗

— Allan Carr

#arts #college #doing #gave #good

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#feels #greatest #greatest challenge #like #macbeth

I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#grand #i #next #next year #palace

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#hardest #i #i do #part #performing

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that. ↗