An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise. Kate Smith
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. E. M. Forster
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance. Roger Mudd
My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. Tom Lehrer