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I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great. -- Kimbra
The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it. -- A. O. Scott
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing. -- Oliver Sacks
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness. -- Robert Bringhurst
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries. -- Hermann Hesse
I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week. -- Gareth Gates
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. -- Ian Mckellen
Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances. -- Raza Jaffrey
I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work. -- Brooke Elliott
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances. -- Peter Stone
I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun. -- Kelly Bishop
What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it. -- Andrea Bocelli
A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater. -- Lisa Randall
I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them. -- Michael Rapaport
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years. -- Jenna Ushkowitz
When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up. -- Karen DeCrow
I am a musical-theater nut. When the lyrics, orchestration, and performance all come together just right, I come alive and can feel every cell in my body. -- Kelly Stables

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