
The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.
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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.
quote by Chuck Mangione

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I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
quote by James Lipton

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The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.
quote by Rick Wakeman

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Performance
We are all performers
on a daily stage,
each of us having a part
to play the best we can
from waking in the morning
to sleeping late at night.
Every performance
is watched from on high
and he sends us a message
when we get our performance wrong.
He tell us in his own way
how to mend the performance
that we gave,
then we go out and start
all over again,
only this time
to right the wrongs we made.
5 February 2008
poem by David Harris

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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
quote by Warren Zevon

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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
quote by Adrian Mitchell

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The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.
quote by George H. Mead

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Drag Me Down
There's a reason why the words got
hard for me to bare
Because within them was the promise of
a life that just wasn't there
You're not my friend and I have no doubt
That I finally figured it out
You're trying to drag me down (x4)
Was it hate or was it hurt
that led you to be this way
Did you want it all for nothing
Did you think that would be OK
I did everything I could for you
Still you wanna run me through
(Chorus)
I did everything I could for you
Still you wanna run me through
You're trying to drag me down (x4)
You're gonna drag me down
You're trying to drag me down
You're gonna drag me down
You're trying to drag me down
song performed by by Tonic from Sugar

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So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.
quote by Billy Sherwood

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On The Drag
Youre only happy when youre sad
Youre top fueled and youre bad
Parachute in your back pack and
Your knees under your chin
And your boyfriends getting mad
At all the time you waste
Trying to put your finger on it
The allure of st. marks place
On the drag, on the drag
Youre all waiting round for something
And its never coming back
On the drag, on the drag
Its a genuine disaster
And its come to make you king
On the drag
I wont die until Im dead,
Are the first words that he said
Dont try to interrupt him,
cause hes never gonna stop
And the time is standing still
With all this time to kill
And Im trying to walk away
From 1st avenue to a
On the drag, on the drag
Its a genuine disaster
And weve crowned him with his crown
On the drag, on the drag
Were all waiting round for something
And its never coming back
On the drag, on the drag
Were all waiting round for something
And its never coming back
On the drag, on the drag
Were all waiting for disaster
And we crowned him with his crown
On the drag
song performed by by They Might Be Giants

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Eternal sleep
Slit and slash wrist.
With a stab and a twist.
Drag it through my empty vains.
Drag it trough my so fragile skin.
We'll never know what might have been.
For everything was un for seen.
One thing I have forever more.
Eternal sleep.
I shall sleep for eternity.
As I drown the pills.
To end my sorrow.
And drag the blade.
Eyes shut.
Life cut.
Sleep etrenal
poem by Amy Louise Kerswell

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And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.
quote by Stewart Copeland

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I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.
quote by Todd Barry

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If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
quote by Stevie Nicks

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It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.
quote by James Young

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I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life.
quote by Ben Harper

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Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
quote by Bette Davis

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If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.
Benito Mussolini in The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935

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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
quote by Bela Lugosi

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I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.