Performances Quotes

“Your health, wealth, position, performance, ability and attitude are the results of your decisions.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“Performers try harder.”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

“No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary.”
― Amit Kalantri

“The greatest performances where when fingertips took away a very thin veil between people and uncovered the universe in its entirety.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“Good well-being leads to good working performance.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Which made me think about a musician Aaron told me about: a composer who wrote a piece with no notes whatsoever. When the piece is performed, a musician comes onstage, opens the piano, sets a timer, and plays nothing. Aaron said the first time the piece was performed, the audience got nervous -- they whispered to one another and shifted in their seats, and some even walked out. Now when it's performed, people expect the silence. Instead of getting mad or nervous, they hear other things: the rustling of programs, fabric sliding against seats, polite coughing. They hear themselves, which they wouldn't hear otherwise, even though those noises were always there.

That piece is called 4'33", because the performer sits quietly for exactly four minutes and thirty-three seconds.”
― Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

“[Vaclav] Havel called this “living within a lie”.

The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack.”
― Mark Carney