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Bill Cosby is one of America's most successful black performers.
— Renee Montagne
Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.
— John Eliot
Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.
— Elton John
Most people don't understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don't get a chance to live their lives.
— Diana Ross
Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.
— Steve Carell
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
— Yo-Yo Ma
In medieval times most singers, dancers, and musical performers were, at least in origin, slaves.
— Bernard Lewis
Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.
— Beyonce Knowles
My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.
— Nick Offerman
There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
— Penn Jillette
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.
— Tom Glazer
Audiences are far from being as dumb as some performers seem to think.
— Theodore Annemann
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.
— Barbra Streisand
Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused emotion.
— Joan Rivers
Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.
— Gordon Smith
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.
— Damien Chazelle
I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
— George Bernard Shaw
When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.
— Mary Ruwart
The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.
— Joan Rivers
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
— Steve Lacy
I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.
— John Cleese
Phelps, even at a young age, had a capacity for obsessiveness that made him an ideal athlete. Then again, all elite performers are obsessives.
— Charles Duhigg
It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.
— Timothy Ferriss
Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.
— Gloria Trevi
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
— Adam Lambert
I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
— Penn Jillette
Failing to differentiate among employees - and holding on to bottom-tier performers - is actually the cruelest form of management there is.
— Jack Welch
Even world class performers can benefit from walk breaks.
— Jeff Galloway
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
— Gabrielle Aplin
The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.
— Charles Garfield
Teachers are performers, just like I am.
— Kathleen Hanna
You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.
— Tom Kenny
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
— Jamie Farr
To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.
— Tom Lehrer
Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on.
— Brian Tracy
I love fierce performers.
— Ella Eyre
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,
— Annaleigh Ashford
I love working with talented young performers.
— Jodi Benson
Your assets are your employees. Invest more on those performing well. Let the non performers go.
— Manoj Arora
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
— Marc Maron
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
— Sandra Bernhard
They who are to be judges must also be performers.
— Aristotle.
People react differently to puppets than they do to human performers: they become more playful, more open.
— Kathe Koja
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.
— Janet Jackson
Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.
— Stewart Stafford
I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen.
— Tom Scharpling
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.
— Olivia Hussey
I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
— Bobby Vinton
I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.
— Billy Crystal
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.
— Samantha Bee
The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but about the process of reaching the outcome.
— Geoff Colvin
Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.
— Lyle Lovett
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else BY GEOFF COLVIN
— Daniel H. Pink
Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.
— Brian Tracy
Performers are never more unpredictable than when they're full of adrenaline and failure.
— Gwenda Bond
Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.
— Harry Houdini
Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!
— Israelmore Ayivor
I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.
— Tracey Ullman
All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience outside the gilded cage — Neil Peart
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience outside the gilded cage — Neil Peart
If you were to visit a dozen talent hotbeds tomorrow, you would be struck by how much time the learners spend observing top performers.
— Daniel Coyle
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
— Laurence Olivier
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
— Leonard Slatkin
I believe a lot in the relationship between performers. When you're supported by someone's eyes, you're not alone.
— Clemence Poesy
Birds are the first and the greatest performers.
— Olivier Messiaen
I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.
— Oliver
Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
— Camille Paglia
I think most performers are just lazy.
— Aaron Watson
To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.
— John Eliot
Don't settle for poor performers. Keep in mind that one great person will always out-produce and out-perform two mediocre people.
— John C. Maxwell
It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
— Simon Cowell
Failing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits.
— Howard Snell
Scientists who become icons must not only be geniuses but also performers, playing to the crowd and enjoying public acclaim.
— Freeman Dyson
To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
I read that young Netalia Lackless had run away with a troupe of traveling performers.
— Patrick Rothfuss
When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.
— Joan Rivers
We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.
— Robert Webb
Performers try harder.
— David Byrne
Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!
— Camryn Manheim