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Performing Quotes - Page 2

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

"David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, www.ew.com. January 11, 2016.

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.36, Macmillan

I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them.

"What's new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be on, performing.

"Work experience: The stars before they were famous" by Lucy Barrick, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2000.