David Tudor Quotes

I love singing - singing was basically kind of my passion before ventriloquism.

One of the reasons why I started creating my solo show is so that I have a place to put all of the accents that I do.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas with utmost perfection, yet stay free enough to allow improvisatory nuance? This has immediate application in almost every area of life, but especially in performance.

I think acting is a gift.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.

Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Anyone can learn a trick, but to make it entertaining, to put a presentation twist on it, and then to take it out there and really amaze people is a whole different ball game. You have to have some kind of a natural ability to do that, I suppose.

I love to dance and sing.

I love to dance. I love to perform. I love to entertain.