Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

Nhat Hanh

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.

Mother Teresa

All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.

Satyajit Ray

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

Logan Lerman

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Dale Decker

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Van Morrison

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

Shania Twain

I've been performing my whole life.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

David Tudor

I persist in performing.

Dave Henderson

Sand sculpting is a performing art. Just like a play when the show is over, all we have is a memory.

Carter Burwell

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

Trent Reznor

Just spent the day discussing touring up through next summer, then played our asses off to the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. As I'm walking to the bus to leave Sacramento as soon as I can, I learn Jerome is back in the hospital. I have no idea what this means.

Glenn Stanton

John and I are both very disturbed by audience members who don't conduct themselves well, regardless of which side they are on. But that is very rare. Most people seem thankful for the way and seriousness with which we engage the issue and our obvious respect for each other.

Mike Spence

I think it is ... because the agriculture community in this country is shrinking, and their audience is growing.

Zhang Ziyi

He creates characters that draw in an audience no matter what language they speak. His insight into the human heart crosses all boundaries. I know he is also making a huge influence in the lives of younger filmmakers and actors.

Rory Bruer

Having a Jim Carrey film over the holidays is a pretty sure bet. Audiences trust he'll have the goods, and they want to laugh and have a good time this time of year.

George Pierce Baker

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

Steve Earle

As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

Ingrid Jensen

There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the audiences in general there are so much more appreciative than big city audiences.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.