When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.
. . . writing is not a performance but a generosity.
The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance
I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure.
You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.
The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.
I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.
I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.
The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.
If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.
I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong. " 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so we all begin, determined to better our fathers' performances, knowing we can change the very nature of humanity, make it better, cleaner. But then daggers strike in the night, and peasants revolt, and all manner of atrocities become a necessity as breakfast. Only Princes believe in the greater good. Kings know there is only Reign, and all things may be committed in its holy name.
I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.
My studio works in cycles. I am consistent with all of the practices, but I give attention to one part for a certain amount of time. I say, "Okay, I'm making performances," and sometimes that means I can't be making photographic works. As I'm maturing as an artist, years have passed and I feel that I'm becoming a better craftsperson in multiple fields, but that takes time. Also, because I trained as an actor, I hold this thing about how an actor prepares and therefore I try to prepare for all of my tasks.
We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking.