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Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem. -- Jodi Picoult
Music is about the performance. -- Vanessa Mae
Music is a performance and needs the audience. -- Michael Tippett
One of the things I love about music is live performance. -- Yo-Yo Ma
If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music. -- Marina Abramovic
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. -- Frank Zappa
I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music. -- John Tesh
People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers. -- Cate Blanchett
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. -- Evan Parker
I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be. -- Andre Previn
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered. -- Charles Rosen
Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble. -- Charles Hazlewood
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard. -- Iggy Pop
The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based. -- Kaskade
To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings. -- Jamie Wyeth
Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life. -- Jacques Villeneuve
It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music. -- Lukas Foss
There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music. -- Carlisle Floyd
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things. -- Leo Ornstein
I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely! -- Jiah Khan
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that. -- Brian Eno
Nothing has more words and performance than rap music. -- Chuck D
A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music. -- Fred Picker
Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together. -- Planningtorock
The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance. -- Paul Lansky
I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else. -- Igor Levit
Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray. -- Thomas Campion
The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea. -- T Bone Burnett
The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation. -- Igor Stravinsky
My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal. -- Helene Grimaud
Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment. -- Jonathan Demme
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself. -- Billy Joel
Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it. -- Todd Rundgren

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