I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

— Sarah Brightman

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.

— Jewel

It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.

— Bob Mould

The time of the third millennium is the time when the people of God will walk, covered byGod’s glory, performing great wonders and miracles.

— Sunday Adelaja

I'm thankful for performing as long as I am allowed.

— Chuck Berry

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

— David Byrne

In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communicate, but now I found that singing was both a physical and emotional joy. It was sensuous, a pure pleasure, which didn't take away from the emotions being expressed—even if they were melancholic. Music can do that; you can enjoy singing about something sad.

— David Byrne

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.

— Oliver

Dare to outlearn your best performance.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You can reach maximum performance by engaging in physical activities.

— Lailah Gifty Akita