“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.” KnowsYearsMadeStillsPlaySchoolNightLinesFiveDirectorsPerformancesDisasterOpeningEmbarrassedJuniorsJunior YearOpening Night Author:Katie Leclerc
“I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.” IfsThinkingMadeWatchesDangerPerformancesAlbumsStudios Author:Chuck Mangione
“I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.” PeopleThinkingArtMadeStillsFactsDifficultElementsPerformancesMade ItTheatricalPerformance Art Author:Lady Gaga
“My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.” KnowsWayGivingYearsMadeActingWifeGoes OnCostGiving UpEternalMarriedPerformancesTwentiesMy WifeTheatreSingersLastingExpensesOperaSpectatorsWagnerOpera Singers Book:The Waltz of the Toreadors Source: The Waltz of the Toreadors
“The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.” PeopleArtMadeImportantMomentsProblemHappensFormDifficultEffortPerformancesImportant ThingsCatchingEphemeral Author:Judith Weir
“A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself.” DoeMadeSoundViewsOughtPerformancesDiedStructureCharacteristicsEtcConsiderationLengthPreciseFrequencyMorphology Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings
“Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.” PersonsMadeSeemsSpiritualLawUniverseClassModernObjectsCollegeExpressionLetting GoWorshipPerformancesStructureMereInstanceAbstractDivinityAddressesGraduatesFrankIdealismCultScandalDeitiesTranscendentalSuperhumanGraduating Class Author:William James