Performance Quotes

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

I'm so powerful on stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.

If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven't slept for three days.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

To manage the performance of such specialists the team leader has to adopt a delicate balance between the hands-on and the hands-off approach.

Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year -- if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!