There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there. " But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.
Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.
I think most performers are just lazy.
I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it again. It really helps.
There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going literally when the power is gone and performers who haven't had that much experience and will panic and freak out and don't know what to do.
I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.
I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].
Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.
You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those same artists.
As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.
As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.
Patrick thought we should try to put an audience in front of one of the workshops, basically in front of the class and see how the performers rose to having an audience there, because he said, "You know, it's a really interesting test, because sometimes it gets even funnier. "
I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.