High Wire Quotes
Walking a high wire is as much a metaphor as a physical act, standing in for any risk taken in public view. This collection of high wire quotes brings together performers and artists reflecting on failure, courage, and the strange beauty of never knowing if the next step will hold.
Every high wire walker understands that risk and Art are inseparable once you climb that high above the crowd.
I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of...
I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
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I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by...
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
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Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that...
You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make...
The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
