Top 1200 Live Performance Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

I don't understand people who just live to exist, live to be OK. Live to be regular, live to be average. It doesn't make any sense to me. I live to be the best. I don't live to be good. You only get one life, and I live to be great. I live to be special.

I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance in front of an audience.

In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly recreate the record. Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music.

Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.

My setup for a live performance lately has been just guitar and synthesizer. Sometimes I only bring one. The guitar is in pretty bad shape and isn't sounding the same. Most of the time my live approach has been pretty different from recording.

Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

I just constantly judge myself based off my performance. When performance isn't good, I let it bring everything down.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

I can tell you there will be a performance centre in India. There will be a performance centre in the Middle East. There will, more than likely, be a performance centre in Latin America. We will be replicating this process around the globe, all over.

I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes

You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other actors.

There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

The live performance aspect of shooting a multicamera sitcom is wonderful. You have that instant audience reaction.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organization is.

The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all in live performance.

My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.

Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to their present game-day effort. I stressed the fact that today's performance could be the most important of their life. Yesterday's performance was already history. Tomorrow really never comes, so today's performance is what really counts.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

When you're shooting concert scenes in films, we try to bring in, where appropriate, as much of a sense of live performance as possible.

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.

There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

I would be lying I didn't mention I saw Dominick Cruz's performance at UFC 178 and was impressed by his dominating performance.

I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.

Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.

As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.

I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians.

When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance.

Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

It's okay if someone is disgusted or offended by my performance. It's just a performance.

Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things like that that are better for the live performance.

I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.

Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.

I'm passionate about nature and the respect, peace, and beauty I derive from it. My voice, my live performance, and when I'm in the studio. My children and love.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organisation is.

As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's the definition of manliness - that it's not a performance; it's being yourself, authentic. Whereas women have understood gender as performance. Men have not yet made that quantum leap, or rather they're making it in many ways, they're not thinking about it.

The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead religious activity performed week after week by an evangelical Christian with the intent of impressing his God. It's all religious performance, and God isn't impressed by our performance. What impresses Him is faith.