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"I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance."
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"We all have levels of performance."
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"All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it."
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"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."
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"The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept."
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"I attended a symposium to hear Shilagh Mirgain, Ph.D. speak on Mindful Leadership. Throughout her program, I made sure to make eye contact and smile to support, affirm, and engage with her presentation. When audience members do this for me, it adds an extra punch of dynamic energy that enriches my presentations and improves my performance."
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"So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes."
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"Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!" Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Nothing happened. "I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin." Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "oh no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter, "I am turning into a crazy dolphin."
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"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
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"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."
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"An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance."
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"It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in."
Sound
"I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme."
Music
"My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do."
Work
"I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance."
Performance
"Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't."
Idea
"We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now."
Idea
"You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches."
Food
"Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved."
Art
"I think that music has an endless life."
Life
"Composers are always going back to the past."
Composer
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