“At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with my Futurist friends Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, Balla, Soffici, Papini, and Cavacchioli, there came to my mind the idea of a new art, one that only you can create: the Art of Noises, a logical consequence of your marvelous innovations.” MindArtIdeasTogetherListeningConsequencePerformancesTheaterInnovationNoiseLogicalOverwhelmingRomeMarvelousCrowdedFuturist Author:Luigi Russolo
“Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.” PlayTogetherDifferencesWatchesHellListeningPerformancesGuitarEntertainmentVideoToxicTiedBrittany Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It still is a wonderful production. I remember going and seeing the performance and listening to the music. My father had Mormon Tabernacle Choir music, and we would listen to it and sing with it.” YearsStillsRememberFatherWonderfulSeeingNew YorkListeningPerformancesProductionsChoirPageantUpstate New York Author:Renee Fleming
“I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.” ThinkingWayHomeSongActingWrittenStageListeningElementsConnectionsPerformancesSongwritingCds Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can represent. I also think they're a terrific listening experience. Putting them out this way was a way of trying to maintain and nurture the relationship with the audience and also shine a light on the recent past, because we are so apt to be forgetful as human beings that there was such a thing as a recent past. These are some of the reasons for making this record.” ThinkingWayTryingHumansReasonLightPastValuesHuman BeingsAudienceRecordsListeningPerformancesShiningNurtureTerrificForgetfulRecent Past Author:Will Oldham
“The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.” ArtFormFeltListeningSingingPerformancesIntimacyIntimateInterpretationFrank Author:Robert Davi
“Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksKindIdeasLastsSidesResultsEconomyFiveProductsListeningPerformancesInnovationFinancialFantasticFive YearsReactingPipelineLast Five YearsFinancial Results Author:Steve Ballmer