Quotes About Expression

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.

I've always been interested in the arts and chucked a science degree to study theatre and performance art because I was so enamored by it.

We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.

I have performed for people around the world but it is always a different feeling when you perform for your own people.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing. So it was a definitely a new adventure going in to audition for 'Glee.'

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.