Quotes about Performance

I don't want to be a guy who's just sitting on the bench stealing money.

A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour taking in that steam, and it saves my life!

You have to do a good job controlling the things you can control for performance and not get distracted by all the noise.

Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.

I think 21st century should be art without objects.

Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions.

For when an act becomes easy through constant repetition it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure to perform it is man's nature to perform it often. When I perform it often it becomes a habit and I become its slave and since it is a good habit this is my will. Today I begin a new life.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

I'd rather be at Wragby, where I can go about and be still, and not stare at anything or do any performing of any sort. This tourist performance of enjoying oneself is too hopelessly humiliating: it's such a failure.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.