Top Performance Quotes
My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.
Chris Brown
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
David Herbert Lawrence
The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
Shelley Berman
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau 
Rutherford B. Hayes 
Tony Conrad 
Gwen Stefani 
Alan Parsons 
Mae West 
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The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.
Laurie Anderson 
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I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
Lasse Hallstrom
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That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues.
Tony Conrad
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When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.
Peggy Fleming
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So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.
Sophie Marceau
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We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.
Penelope Keith
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If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.
Roger McGough
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
Taylor Hackford
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Popular Performance Authors
William ShakespeareJohann Wolfgang von GoetheSamuel Johnson AristotleDavid Herbert LawrenceRichard M. NixonErnest HemingwayFranklin D. RooseveltMae WestGeorg C. LichtenbergDonald RumsfeldJim CarreyArthur EricksonLoretta YoungBilly Joel
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