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22 Mar 14 - 02:17 PM (#3611881) Subject: Quotes about performing From: Jack the Sailor QOTD: from Janis Iam on Facebook "An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark ~ that is critical genius." ~Billy Wilder |
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22 Mar 14 - 04:46 PM (#3611921) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: RTim An Italian tenor was asked about the large fees he was paid to sing, and he replied, "I don't get paid to sing, I get paid to be nervous." Tim Radford |
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22 Mar 14 - 04:55 PM (#3611923) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: michaelr My band does not charge fees to perform. We charge to move the equipment. |
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22 Mar 14 - 05:06 PM (#3611927) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: GUEST The performance is free. The cost of the ticket is payment for years of practice. |
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23 Mar 14 - 03:20 AM (#3612022) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: PHJim "Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly." ― Robert Schumann |
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23 Mar 14 - 03:20 AM (#3612023) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: PHJim "Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly." ― Robert Schumann |
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23 Mar 14 - 04:10 AM (#3612029) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: GUEST,take note folk club organisers if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. |
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23 Mar 14 - 06:52 AM (#3612063) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: Leadfingers A quiet audience is fine , unless they are moving slowly and purposefully toward you |
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23 Mar 14 - 07:24 AM (#3612067) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: GUEST,leeneia Good one, Leadfingers. That one made me think. Thanks, PHJim. I'm going to print your Schumann quote and put it on my piano. |
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23 Mar 14 - 08:17 AM (#3612077) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: Mo the caller "My band does not charge fees to perform. We charge to move the equipment." Oh yes Michael. And to drive there in the rush hour, and back after midnight. |
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23 Mar 14 - 09:13 AM (#3612085) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: Bert "You have to get up on stage knowing that you are the greatest. Otherwise you'd never have the guts to do it" A quote from me during a conversation with Rick Fielding. |
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23 Mar 14 - 12:23 PM (#3612125) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: GUEST,DTM "The audience were with me all the way but I managed to shake them off at the station" - Harry Secombe in a telegram to Michael Bentine |
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23 Mar 14 - 09:10 PM (#3612210) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: GUEST,SqueezeMe Sorry, unable to attribute this, but I think it was some Victorian era concertina tutor book.... "The mark of a true musician is to practice, not so that he can get it right, but so that he can't get it wrong." |
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23 Mar 14 - 10:03 PM (#3612214) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: meself "Fuck'm if they can't take a joke." |
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23 Mar 14 - 10:42 PM (#3612223) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: GUEST,gillymor This from the Banjo Hangout posted recently by Oldwoodchuck regarding Old Time tunes: "The fiddle plays melody rhythmically and the banjo plays rhythm melodically." One that I always try to heed, not sure where it came from: "Let the performance do the thinking." |
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23 Mar 14 - 10:58 PM (#3612227) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: Ebbie "You've been listening to the other performers playing great music. Now, for something completely different..." |
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24 Mar 14 - 12:24 AM (#3612241) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: Phil Cooper Stan Rogers once said it was, "hours to tedious boredom, interrupted by moments of abject terror." |
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24 Mar 14 - 04:23 AM (#3612261) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: GUEST,FloraG At a young age my daughter was taken to see an opera as a birthday treat for a friend. How was it? It was Ok apart from the singing. FloraG |
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24 Mar 14 - 06:02 AM (#3612288) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: GUEST SqueezeMe's quote came to me as "Amateurs practise until they can do it right, professionals practise until they can't get it wrong." |
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24 Mar 14 - 06:39 AM (#3612297) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: BobKnight "A band/musician that plays for nothing, is worth nothing." |
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24 Mar 14 - 09:42 AM (#3612343) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: GUEST "A band is an un-natural act between consenting musicians." |
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24 Mar 14 - 07:33 PM (#3612496) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: GUEST,Troubadour If they love you, love 'em back! If they hate you, take the money and move on! |
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24 Mar 14 - 08:18 PM (#3612509) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: RTim Jeannie Robertson (I think!) " This song is old, and continues to be old." Tim Radford |
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25 Mar 14 - 05:20 AM (#3612578) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: GUEST "Dick Miles, He doesnt get many gigs since metrification" quote from Vin Garbutt |
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25 Mar 14 - 11:47 AM (#3612671) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: Jim Carroll My wife Pat was once taken to see the opera, Lucia De Lammamore. On leaving, hr companion said "wasn't the mad scene incredible? Her reply "mad scene??" Jim Carroll |
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25 Mar 14 - 07:45 PM (#3612808) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: GUEST One advantage of writing your own material is only you know when you've sodded it up - but only you is applauding yourself for getting it right thereafter. |
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26 Mar 14 - 04:24 PM (#3613004) Subject: RE: Quotes about performing From: JHW Chris Coe (so I was told) 'Never stand in front of the song, always behind' |