“On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.” WorldFirstsArtistFeetFiguresMajorsFirst TimePerformancesCornersHallsConcertsAvenuesCarnegieCarnegie HallTchaikovsky Book:Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry Source: Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry
“I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.” WantArtistCreativeStyleEmotionalPerformancesCreative ArtCerebralCreative ArtistsWhirling Dervish Author:Scott Weiland
“What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?” KindArtistPerformancesNewspapersSeatsReviewsMoronAustin Author:Al Yankovic
“For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.” WritingArtistPerformancesEggsChickensLive Performance Author:Black Francis
“Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!” MomentsArtistActorsLosesTalkingPerformances Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.” MenArtistSpeakGrowsSecretWonderFatePerformancesDeeperMortalsRangeIsolationAssuranceConsideratePenetration Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just that. Memorable performances of wonderful songs that ensure Luther's legacy will live on forever.” DoneArtistSongJusticeForeverWonderfulImpossibleTasksPerformancesLegacyMemorableImpossibilityLutherLandmarks Author:Clive Davis
“The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.” WantMightArtistTermPerformancesBest Things Author:Laurie Anderson
“Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it.” GivingTryingArtistPerformancesSellsPromotionLive PerformanceRecorded Music Author:Todd Rundgren
“I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into my drag from every detail of the costume, makeup and hair to my performance, the way I speak or even stand.” WayArtistSpeakHairPerformancesPaintDetailsMediumsMakeupDragCostumesClay Author:Manila Luzon
“My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.” WellsLongSchoolArtistProcessMediaDogCreationPaintingPhotographyPerformancesCamerasBackgroundsSettingVideoSettingsCollaborationFascinatedSixtyInstallation Author:William Wegman
“If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.” IfsLongShowsArtistAudienceLong TimePerformancesPerformingReally Long Author:Eddie Murphy
“Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of the Author’s Life, and lock themselves into cork-lined rooms or droop around in bars in order to whine better. But although most writing is done in solitude, I believe that it is done, like all the arts, for an audience. That is to say, with an audience. All the arts are performance arts, only some of them are sneakier about it than others.” WritingBelieveArtDoneArtistOrderI BelieveRoomsAudienceSolitudePerformancesBarsLocksWork DoneCorkPerformance Art Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. Its not the diva speaking. Its the artist who knows how it has to be done.” KnowsWantNeedsLittlesDoneLightArtistKnow HowPerformancesAskingCostumes Author:Anna Netrebko
“Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.” IfsWayFeelsI CanDoneArtistPerfectEmotionPaintingPerformances Author:Jimmy Page
“'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.” HumansBodyAmericaBeautifulDesireArtistAnimalPowerfulAirPerformancesHorseDifficultyMusicalNarrativeFulfillmentLatinLatin AmericaSuspendedDebutUnderwaterHumans And Animals Author:Mark Doty
“I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.” WantArtLawArtistSuccessfulStreetsPerformancesAbusePoliceArtisticPerformersSpheresPolice BrutalityBrutalityBeggingConfrontingStreet ArtStreet Performers Author:Kalan Sherrard
“I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.” ArtArtistTermPerformancesCriticalPerformance Art Author:Kalan Sherrard