“I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.” NeedsI CanCertainWalksCuttingComfortableAspectPerformersJungleWire Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.” VoiceWalksConnectionsWoundsBarsWireHandfulCablesSparrowsGravel Book:In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories Source: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories
“For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.” FeelsProblemWalksAirActivitySafetyBlockDevicesFearfulWireEliminatingThin Air Author:Philippe Petit
“I usually practice on a small, low wire, that features the predominant wind. I study the meteorology of the place at the time that I am supposed to do my walk, and then I find the predominant direction and velocity of the wind and I train to fight that wind.” FightingWalksPracticeStudyWindLowsTrainFeaturesWireVelocityMeteorology Author:Philippe Petit