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“I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now that what impressed me and stayed with me in memory was - the sounds he made. He played so purely. The music seemed to come from him, not just the instrument he played with such mastery.”

Made Play Sound Realizing Memories Heard Stage Instruments Mastery Impressed Goodman

Author:Marian Seldes

“If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.”

Ifs Thinking Way I Can Kids Past Used Energy Easy Hurt Gone Stage Dad Jokes Negative Opposites My Dad Negative Energy

Author:Derrick Rose

“I'm actually kinda quiet off stage, a lotta people don't realize that. I was at a dinner party recently, a bunch of people that I don't know, one guy talking plenty for everybody. "Me myself right and then I and then myself and mee, me, I couldn't tell this one about I cause I was talking about myself and Me- Meee- Mee- Me- Me!" Beware the Me monster.”

People Knows Guy Causes Realizing Party Talking Stage Quiet Dinner Monsters Bunch Plenty Dinner Party

Author:Brian Regan

“Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell real-life stories and make them funny. So, I'm not like the average comedian. They have an ending joke; they always holler Peace! I'm out of here, and walk off stage. So, basically, when I get through performing on stage, I just walk off.”

Want Real Stories Guy Walks Stage Jokes Average Real Life Comedian Performing Life Story Performing On Stage

Author:Bruce Bruce

“Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.”

Stage Higher Getting Old Getting Older Getting High

Author:Iggy Pop

“I can feel how an audience is reacting when I'm on a stage, but when you are on stage, your perception is distorted. That's something you just have to know. It's like pilots that fly at high Gs and they lose, sometimes, consciousness and hand/eye coordination and they just have to know that that's going to happen. They have to be trained to not try to do too much while they are doing that. So when you are on stage, you have to be aware that you are wrong about how it feels a lot of times.”

Knows Feels Trying I Can Sometimes Hands Happens Eye Loses Consciousness Audience Too Much Stage Perception Pilots Reacting Coordination

Author:Louis C. K.

“I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all comedy. Words. Thoughts. All thoughts are safe and worth exploring.”

Feels Reason Remember Audience Comedy Stage Safe Limits Let Me Get Away Exploring

Author:Louis C. K.

“I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.”

Giving Wanted Stage One Day Giving Up Performing Never Giving Up Performing On Stage

Author:Mick Jagger

“When you get off stage, the audience should know a little bit about you. Not where you are from, but how you see the world. And that's the difference between like a Chris Rock joke, and like an open-miker.”

Knows World Should Littles Bits Differences Audience Rocks Stage Little Bit Jokes Where You Are

Author:Iliza Shlesinger

“I don't know what Tracy Morgan does on stage, but I can assure you it's no act.”

Knows Doe I Can Stage Tracy

Author:Andy Kindler

“You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can. And the next day do it again.”

Writing Trying Home Next Stage Materials Next Day Trash Back Home Trash Cans

Author:Felipe Esparza

“I hate when comedians use Performed For The Troops as one of there credits before they go up on stage.”

Use Hate Stage I Hate Credit Comedian Troops

Author:Felipe Esparza

“I think the biggest challenge I have faced is that I have struggled most of my life with often crippling depression which has sometimes if not keeping me off stage kept me from writing regularly and with any kind of confidence.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Kind Sometimes Challenges Stage Confidence

Author:Gary Gulman

“For the first few years I wrote jokes and performed them word for word and then wrote tags for them and did that word for word and that worked pretty well. Now, I do almost all of my writing on stage and then record and listen for any new things and then I write those down.”

Writing Years Firsts Wells Records Stage Jokes New Things Tag

Author:Gary Gulman

“Well, I am not always joking, sometimes I am serious. But some people always expect you to be funny. If you were like you are on stage, you would be obnoxious. With the jokes and the putdowns, I would need to take a break... juggle something.”

People Ifs Needs Wells Sometimes Would Be Break Stage Serious Like You Jokes Obnoxious

Author:Dom Irrera

“I don't come on to seduce the audience. I don't care if everyone laughs. I can't think about that anymore. If there's anything that a lot of experience on stage and a lot of stage time gives you is the confidence to know that it's ok if they're not laughing every second you're up there. Although that's what drives me and I still go too fast a lot of the time.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Stills I Can Care Audience Laughing Stage Confidence Don't Care I Don't Care Seducing Every Second

Author:Greg Proops

“I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.”

Ifs Whole Turns Next Bits Can Do Brain Stage Thousand Jokes Clubs You Can Do It Stolen Gears

Author:J. B. Smoove

“Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to challenge myself to make something funny out of a premise. I never have my own jokes written. I have to change things as I go along, and I have to entertain myself.”

Writing Believe I Can Moments Challenges My Own Written Stage Jokes Premises

Author:J. B. Smoove

“I talked about everything, man. I've always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a lot of physical comedy. That was my thing. I was a physical comedian. I did anything and everything from running on a treadmill, I can paint a picture on stage of anything.”

Men I Can Running Laughing Growing Up Comedy Growing Written Stage Materials Paint Comedian Treadmills Anything And Everything Physical Comedy

Author:J. B. Smoove

“You have to fail, man, but you cannot allow failure to stop you from doing what you must do. Failing is just as good as succeeding in a lot of ways. It's how you react to it all. You can react to success the wrong way and be a total failure. Or you can react to losing with your whole heart, learn from it, and be a huge success. In stand-up, I've learned to know when I'm burning it up or when I'm being so-so. That's experience. I learn every single time I'm on a stage.”

Knows Men Way Heart Whole Failing Stage Huge Succeed Losing Burning I've Learned Wrong Way

Author:J. B. Smoove

“When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.”

People Way Trying Firsts I Can Done Moments Shows Happens Certain Next Bits Audience Stage Dying Type Jokes Performing Repeats One Time

Author:J. B. Smoove

“I could show you a picture right now where I look like something from The Hills Have Eyes. Talk about an awkward stage. Puberty was not good at all.”

Looks Shows Eye Stage Right Now Hills Awkward Like Something Puberty

Author:Jacob Artist

“Hip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff, putting that on paper and coming into my own as Joell Ortiz. That's why I don't have a stage name, because I chose to talk about everything under the sun that happened to me or next to me in my music.”

Writing Able Next Names Stuff My Own Sun Happened Stage Paper Hip Hop Saved Hips Hops

Author:Joell Ortiz

“I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.”

Ifs Stage Car Cry Serious Singing Performances Dishes Showers Basements Fright Stage Fright

Author:Michelle Chamuel

“I think a man's dream woman changes as he goes through different stages in his life. I'm fortunate to be dating my dream woman now.”

Thinking Men Different Dream Stage Dating Fortunate

Author:Wissam Al Mana

“If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.”

Ifs Knows Certain Audience Stage Talent Like You Theater Crowds Rough Apollo Expletives

Author:Don Alias

“The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.”

Firsts Purpose Destiny Stage Calling First Time Fulfillment

Author:T. D. Jakes

“Old St Petersburg remains a beautiful stage set but to the Russians it is not what Rome is to the Italians or Paris to the French. The decisions are made in the Kremlin. The city of Peter remains a museum, open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.”

Made Beautiful Decision Cities Stage Remains Paris Museums Rome Peter Pms Kremlin

Book:In Leningrad

Source: In Leningrad

“...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.”

Real Hands Action Audience Stage Reader Photograph Theatre Magazines

Book:Photography & Society

Source: Photography & Society

“If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture: If the whole thing already exists in my head, then I haven't learned anything. The tension lies between the staging and the unpredictability.”

Ifs Wells Whole Might Lying Taken Too Much Stage Havens Tension Things Change Unpredictability Staging

Author:Justine Kurland

“I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage.”

Giving Audience Subjects Stage Design Photography Seductive

Author:Taryn Simon

“The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.”

Used Subjects Stage Information Direct Window Surface Documentaries Private Life

Author:Arthur Tress

“It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.”

People Needs Character Stage Fronts Terrible Get Up

Author:Dylan Moran

“Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.”

People Doe Night Courses Stage Opening Fright Stage Fright Opening Night

Author:Joan Collins

“Well, it is quite daunting, but I made my first appearance on the stage when I was nine, because I went to a theatrical school, because I wanted to be an actress since I was eight.”

Firsts Wells Made Wanted School Stage Appearance Eight Actresses Nine Theatrical

Author:Joan Collins

“I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.”

People Night Week Stage Amazed

Author:Dolly Parton

“Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.”

Years I Can Used Five Stage Sitting Five Years Sitting Down

Author:Etta James

“I kind of was raised at The Comedy Store by comedians. When you see my dad on stage before me and then you see me, you'll see where I got a lot of my stuff.”

Kind Stuff Comedy Stage Dad Raised My Dad Stores Comedian

Author:Pauly Shore

“I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.”

Lying Stage Psycho

Author:Bill Burr

“I can't see. I used to wear glasses off stage. Now I'm thinking of getting a pair of contract lenses.”

Thinking I Can Used Stage Glasses Pairs Contracts Lenses

Author:Tommy Bolin

“I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It's my passion.”

Want Important Passion Careers Stage Important Things Being In Love My Passion

Author:Toni Braxton

“When I first go out on stage, there are tummy bubbles everywhere.”

Firsts Stage Bubbles

Author:Toni Braxton

“I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.”

Believe Love Is Audience Stage Theater Dressings Make Believe Dressing Up

Author:Nicole Ari Parker

“I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music?... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.”

Littles Has Beens Inspiration Voice Stage Mom My Mom Storytelling Massive Opera Composer Grandma Phantoms Andrew My Grandma Somber

Author:Lady Gaga

“I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.”

Looks Wanted Heard Stage

Author:Lady Gaga

“We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen's influence was astonishing - from street style, to music culture and the world's museums. His passing marks an insurmountable loss.”

“The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.”

People Acting Stage Fronts Cameras Tricks

Author:Ernest Borgnine

“There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.”

People Way Audience Saws Stage I Realized 80s Choir Sidewalk Slugs

Author:Michael Stipe

“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.”

Thinking Way Home Song Acting Written Stage Listening Elements Connections Performances Songwriting Cds

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“I guess I prefer to play live, but I don't want to have only live CDs. I like playing live because there are alot of things that can happen. I can interact with the audience and say some things to get me in trouble. On the other hand, the studio is nice because you can really take your time and make something that you know is the best thing that you can ever do. But nothing beats being up on stage in front of all that energy.”

Knows Want I Can Play Hands Happens Energy Audience Nice Trouble Stage Fronts Beats Studios Best Things Cds Take Your Time

Author:Katy Perry

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