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Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.
I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.
Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.
I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.
I love hearing positive things; somewhere, way deep down, I'm sure I'm an egomaniac. I guess all performers are, in a way.
We believe that we'll get what we want if we continue to be BTS and know what to do as artists and performers with passion.
It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human beings.
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.
When I was younger, I barely left my room because I was busy watching clips of my favorite actors and performers on the Internet.
Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.
Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.
You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'
There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.
I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.
Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.
There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play guitar like Prince.
My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can.
I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.
I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night.
When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
I once went to La Boca district, where you can watch street performers doing tango, and joined in. But it's very hard to dance in Birkenstocks.
I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time - Brenda Lee, there was Connie Francis.
I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
I would like to face everyone on the Impact roster. It is filled with amazing performers, I would be honored to share the ring with any of them.
I've said it before, that I think if we can have any woman from any other background to come into the WWE, it makes it better for the performers.
There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.