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"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

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

"To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it."

"I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance."

"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."

"The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean."

"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."

"Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital."

"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."

"I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation."
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"The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to."


"They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs."


"The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue."


"I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised."


"Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant."
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