I don’t even know at what age I started, because it’s always been there. Performing… creating… it’s in my DNA.
The cliche of what a rock star is – there’s something elitist about it. I never related to that. I’m an entertainer. I think of it as, you’re performing for people. It’s not a self-glorification thing.
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.
I’m making a case against how money managers are handling customers’ money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that’s not the way wealth is created.
I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. ‘Hey, man, what are you playing?’ ‘Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I’m performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!’
My home is at the WWE. I truly do love performing. The atmosphere here isn’t like anything else. It’s truly where I belong.
Every musician should announce the raga and the sahityam before performing.
I’m always amazed at how much people ‘get’ when I’m performing overseas. I’ve never had to change my act on my international shows; I just make sure that I’ve taken some time to get to know the people in those countries before I perform. That’s been really useful.
I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy – it’s addictive.
If you can’t stop singing as you walk through the halls of your house, or you love performing in your local talent show, YouTube is such a good platform to share that side of you. It’s a place for people who have passions, and the audience is people who appreciate those passions.
When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner’s Performance Group – where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo.
Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing – actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.
When I was in ‘Billy,’ I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always knew that I wanted to have a future in the performing arts. I had no idea that it was going to be acting in movies.
My son is a musician who next year will be attending the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City, which his mother helped him get into by making him practice all the time.
I don’t think I would’ve been performing this long if I didn’t love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It’s not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional.
With ‘Wagon Wheel,’ I loved the visual it painted, and it’s a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.
I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.
Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.
I stopped performing because I don’t have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn’t want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn’t want to do it.
I love performing in the U.K. Everyone is always up for it and brings all their energy to the dance floor.
I’ve been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.
I think with performing, initially I was terrified on stage, absolutely terrified. And I did it again and again and again, and I learned sort of how it works, and then I was able to do it.
I’ve started to get used to traveling a lot and performing, but still everything has grown so quickly and is very exciting!
I just get so hype – I love performing. I love performing whether someone’s there or someone isn’t there.
Everybody’s doing it. When I’m performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.
Listen, I’m a performer, and all I’m worried about is just performing and just doing… This is what makes me happy, so no matter what, I’m going to give it my best shot, and I’m going to put myself all out there and give it 100%, and whatever happens, happens.
There’s a moment of truth that comes when you are performing, and you are all alone.
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in ‘Peter Pan,’ and then I was super-involved in church choir and worship leading at my church. So I always loved music and was involved with it, but never really thought it was what I wanted to do until I started writing.
My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs – lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.
Performing outside, you have to wear sunscreen.
I put my all into performing so people can walk away knowing a bit more about me and feel the passion in my story.
LaGuardia High School is a place of acceptance. You have every type of kid there, performing. The outcast girl would not have been made fun of in my high school.
I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.
Most stand-up comics relish performing ‘in one’ – solo. They like the autonomy.
I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.
I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be – godlike.
I ended up performing one time at BET. I performed my record, like, four times, and the crowd was going super crazy. And Busta just happened to be there; he pulled me to the side and asked, ‘Are you signed to anybody?’ So we went to the studio a few days later, spoke, and then became business partners.
For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There’s nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.
I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.
The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.
I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.
I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.
And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don’t enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.
When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.
I’ve experienced Islamophobic stuff. But I don’t care – you can say whatever you want to say about me, but I am who I am. I think that what I’m trying to fight for and what I’m performing for is bigger than any religion, race, creed, or class.
Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.
I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn’t get the smile off my face.
I think when you’ve got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you’re so excited about performing that it comes together.
My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She’s a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.
You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don’t sit around and sing it anymore unless you’re performing. That’s kind of sad.
I first became interested in style when I was 16 and I had my first couple of gigs. I realised I couldn’t look like the people I was performing to. Not in a condescending way, but just that it would be weird if I was wearing exactly what someone in the crowd was wearing.
I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids’ faces.
I don’t really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.
We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.
