- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yourself Quotes
The hardest audience is yourself.
These quotes turn inward — an actor describing the fear that comes before any audience does, and thoughts on the quiet value of lowering the noise and simply listening more closely. For more on inner confidence, see Feel quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
- Satisfaction
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020