Quotes and Sayings About Concerts
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?
-- Anna Sui -
You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.
-- Anthony Daniels -
History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z.'
-- Aziz Ansari -
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
-- Bernie Worrell -
Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.
-- Betty Buckley -
It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics.
-- Carnie Wilson -
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 -
[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.
-- Conrad Aiken -
I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!
-- Cy Coleman -
I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.
-- Dar Williams -
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
-- David Byrne -
I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
-- David Byrne -
If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
-- David Gilmour -
I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.
-- David Guetta -
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
-- David Ogden Stiers -
Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
-- Derek Bailey -
If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.
-- Donna Summer -
I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.
-- Eden Sher -
The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.
-- Edward Furlong -
Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.
-- Emanuel Ax -
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen -
At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
-- Fiona Apple -
I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
-- Fran Drescher
