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It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human beings.
Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.
When I was younger, I barely left my room because I was busy watching clips of my favorite actors and performers on the Internet.
Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.
Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.
There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.
You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.
I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.
There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play guitar like Prince.
Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.
My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can.
I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.
I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night.
I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time - Brenda Lee, there was Connie Francis.
I once went to La Boca district, where you can watch street performers doing tango, and joined in. But it's very hard to dance in Birkenstocks.
I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
I would like to face everyone on the Impact roster. It is filled with amazing performers, I would be honored to share the ring with any of them.
I've said it before, that I think if we can have any woman from any other background to come into the WWE, it makes it better for the performers.
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good they are.
I was a huge fan of Rick Rude and Arn Anderson. There's many guys, many performers in the past who turned me into the sports entertainer I am today.
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.
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.
I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time.
I think that's what makes a great show: when the performers onstage aren't putting on a show, they're legitimately just having a freaking awesome time.
It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.
Wrestling is to go out there and perform and make people believe that either of the performers in the ring can win - either the bad guy or the good guy.
For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to photograph it afterward.
For directors and producers, you're not going to get competent performers on your set if they didn't start at a young age and understand professionalism.
It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.
Most people don't think of actors and people like us that are performers and out in the world as introverts, but I like to know I can trust someone first.