Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
Vanessa Carlton

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Robert Shea

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.
Rowan Atkinson

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
Neville Marriner

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
Itzhak Perlman

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?
Seth Lloyd

Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.
Colin Mochrie

Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world.
Guy Laliberte

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
Philip Emeagwali

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
Dan Rather

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
Charley Pride

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
Neil Diamond

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.
David Tudor

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.
Toni Braxton

Performing was terrifying.
Bryan Ferry

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

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.
Kim Wilde

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
Phil Donahue

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.
Goran Persson

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
Gavin Newsom