Performance Quotes

I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.

I look at old performance videos now, and it’s really funny – I thought I was such a gangster!

By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.

In performing experiments, it is necessary… that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Improve your performance by improving your attitude.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude