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"So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

"Performance depends upon our actions an behaviors, which are activated by emotions, which are created when our MINDSET meets reality... Mindsets Matter Most."

"He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous."

"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."

"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."

"The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth."

"Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance."

"Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will."

"When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity."

"Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it."
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"We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place."

"Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion."

"People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing."

"That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage."

"It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more."

"They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it."

"If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen."

"It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one."
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