The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
~By Ansel Adams ~
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.
~By John Eaton ~
The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.
~By Will Wright ~
There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.
~By Casey Abrams ~
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
~By Frank Shorter ~
Reading should be a repeat performance.
~By John Barton ~
The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.
~By Sarah Caldwell ~
Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!
~By Deborah Bull ~
An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
~By Kate Smith ~
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues.
~By Tony Conrad ~
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.
~By Ron Chernow ~
Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do.
~By Sherilyn Fenn ~
Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.
~By Elizabeth Pena ~
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
~By Red Auerbach ~
All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.
~By George Thorogood ~
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
~By Judy Holliday ~
The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
~By Shelley Berman ~
It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.
~By Mark Roberts ~
What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.
~By Michael Wilbon ~
It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
~By Pete Townshend ~
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
~By Bill Rodgers ~
I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen.
~By Donald Wolfit ~
Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.
~By Howard Dean ~
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.
~By Alec Baldwin ~
The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.
~By Stefano Langone ~
I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.
~By Mel Torme ~
Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.
~By Brenda Blethyn ~
It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.
~By Ron Davies ~
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
~By Evan Parker ~
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.
~By Chris Brown ~
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
~By Michael Tippett ~
Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.
~By John Eaton ~
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.
~By Anton Seidl ~
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.
~By Gordon Moore ~
Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
~By Elliott Carter ~
Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
~By Van Morrison ~
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
~By Frank Zappa ~
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.
~By Lukas Foss ~
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.
~By David Gower ~
People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
~By Lorna Luft ~
I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.
~By Anna Friel ~
Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
~By Mel Torme ~
One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.
~By Peter Garrett ~
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
~By Gavin Bryars ~
I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
~By Ken Burns ~
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
~By Vernon Jordan ~
It's been an amazing year of individual performances.
~By Steve Kerr ~
From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
~By Georg Simmel ~
Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
~By Wayne Rogers ~
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
~By Leo Kottke ~
Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.
~By Mark Spitz ~
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.
~By Timothy Bottoms ~
I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
~By Joe Paterno ~
When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.
~By John Strachan ~
My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.
~By Naima Adedapo ~
That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.
~By Richard Donner ~
But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
~By Warren Zevon ~
That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'
~By Jason Dohring ~
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
~By Ethel Merman ~
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
~By Jane Byrne ~
We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.
~By Joseph Jarman ~
One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.
~By Maurice Strong ~
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
~By Billy Joel ~
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
~By Sarah Sutton ~
The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.
~By Kenny Hickey ~
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.
~By Alison Lohman ~
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
~By Aristotle ~
I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
~By David Friedman ~
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
~By John Perry Barlow ~
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.
~By Richard Masur ~
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
~By Jack Bowman ~
You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.
~By Don King ~
I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.
~By Tim Roth ~
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
~By Roger Mudd ~
Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.
~By David Thewlis ~
As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?
~By Lukas Foss ~
Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.
~By Bill Toomey ~
I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.
~By Devon Sawa ~
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