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"I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer."
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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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"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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"I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt."
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"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."
Music

"I really write for people."
People

"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."
Music

"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults."
Music

"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."
Composer

"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
Music

"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
Opera

"In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed."
Experience

"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples."
School

"We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range."
Life
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