#stage

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#grow #more #noble #pass #serene

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself. ↗

— Tom Chapin

#backstage #believe #both #canadian #festival

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage. ↗

— Cher

#entertainer #i #i do #i think #myself

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#go #guitar #i #i can #i love

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#else #felt #how #i #just

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#cultural #deficit #even #history #human

I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section. ↗

— Eric Church

#because #big #crutch #getting #happening

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film. ↗

— Sally Field

#film #getting #i #matters #me

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time. ↗

— David Copperfield

#deck #go #i #me #off

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#anything #coming #humor #lesbian #more