performing artists Quotes

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.

Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages.

[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself.

Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.

When I was asked if I wanted to perform on the Grand Ole Opry, I yelled, 'Are you kidding me?' I've been waiting for that my whole life. To be invited where so many of the greatest country artists have performed is an honor, and I still can't believe it has been bestowed on me. Just to stand in the circle where so many greats have stood-Hank Williams, Kitty Wells, I just couldn't believe it.

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

It's awesome to have friends among the country music community that you know are looking out for you and that you are excited to get to see on the road.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

I don't like people who make records and then don't ever perform. If you are going to make a record it's important you get out there so people can see you if they want to and get to hear you if they want to.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're spoiled too.

I can't wait to get out on the road with Michael McDonald and his band. There is some deep history between us, and it's always a great hang.