True Performer Quotes

#1. Like every true performer, she was intoxicated by the mere feel of the notes: they were fingers caressing her own; and by touch, not by sound alone, did she come to her desire.

E. M. Forster

#2. You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready to perform. That's what a true performer is.

Mark McGrath

#3. You start getting satisfied you stop getting better.

Sachin Kumar Puli

#4. The hope Of active days urged on by flying hours, -

William Wordsworth

#5. I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat.
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Cassandra Clare

#6. What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Hosni Mubarak

#7. If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.

Ali Akbar Khan

#8. I want people to know that on the other side of the world - and even in your own country or on your own street - there are people who need something that you can give them.

Debby Ryan

#9. We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.

Jim Barksdale

#10. The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels who had ever labored for their salvation, and that Lamb who had redeemed them with his most precious blood.

Isaac Newton

#11. Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF and then someone else makes it. It's like instructions for a short story, faxed to every English student who's studying it.

Nico Muhly

#12. I love American muscle cars. It's my thing.

Brody Jenner

#13. Co-writing the 'True Blood' comic is a dream come true both as a performer on the show and as longtime comic fan. It's a real privilege to build on the rapidly growing 'True Blood' mythology.

Michael McMillian

#14. It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.

Ketch Secor

#15. True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer.

Farshad Asl

#16. Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

Mel Torme

#17. None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.

Mark McGrath

#18. It's gotten far easier to allow ourselves to hate than it is to choose to love.

Sam Killermann

#19. The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.

John Eliot

#20. The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.

Lyle Lovett