quotes about Concerts
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I'm obsessed with concerts.
-- Aaron PaulSource : "The Dirt on Aaron Paul". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. July 12, 2012.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?
-- Anna SuiSource : "Anna Sui Reveals How She Met Courtney Love, That She Inspired Marilyn Manson’s Backless Chaps". Elle's Second Annual Woman in Music event Inteview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2011.
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You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.
-- Anthony DanielsSource : Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.
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History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.
-- Archibald MacLeishSource : 1967 In the Observer,12 Feb.
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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.'
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
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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 BuckleySource : "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.
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It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics.
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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 RosenSource : Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.195, Simon and Schuster
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[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 -
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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 -
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Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
-- David Ogden StiersSource : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
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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 SherSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 AxSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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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 DrescherSource : "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.
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There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
-- Fred Frith -
A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.
-- Freddie Mercury -
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I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.
-- Frederic Chopin -
Here, whatever is not boring is not English.
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Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score
-- Frederick The Great -
I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
-- Gary Cole -
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In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else
-- George Santayana -
When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.
-- Gillian Jacobs -
When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.
-- Gladys Knight -
When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.
-- Holly Near -
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We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.
-- Jakob Bohme -
Courtney Love said she once escorted Kerry to a concert. John Kerry once went out with Courtney Love and he's questioning Bush's judgment.
-- Jay Leno -
Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say -
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I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.
-- Johnny Ramistella -
I love dill pickles! They're on my rider for my concerts so I eat one every day.
-- Jordin Sparks -
I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.
-- Kevin Plank -
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A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.
-- Klaus Schulze -
The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.
-- Lars Ulrich -
I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.
-- Leonard Slatkin -
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I don't give concerts, I put on a show.
-- LiberaceSource : "Turn out the lights, blow out the candelabra: Liberace Museum closing" by Phil Gast, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2010.
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I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
-- Luc Ferrari -
If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
-- Mandy Patinkin -
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
-- Martin Short -
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I wouldn't say I was sexy! But I guess that's fine if that's what they say. I like that in concert. That's neat.
-- Michael Jackson -
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
-- Mose Allison -
We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.
-- Natalie Goldberg -
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
-- Nina Simone -
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And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.
-- Ozzy Osbourne -
Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.
-- Paul Kantner -
The live concert industry has become corporate-ized.
-- Perry FarrellSource : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.
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I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.
-- Petra Nemcova -
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Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
-- Placido Domingo -
I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.
-- Rita Coolidge -
In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
-- Samuel Johnson -
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The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.
-- Sara Gilbert -
I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.
-- Sarah Brightman -
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
-- Sarah Paulson -
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I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.
-- Shalom Harlow -
The best KISS concert I've ever been to was…my wedding.
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I never really went to any concerts that I wasn't in.
-- Slick RickSource : "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.
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When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.
-- Sondre LercheSource : "Sondre Lerche’s Barn Identity". Interview with Chloe Eichler, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2011.
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I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
-- Stephen SondheimSource : "'On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 21, 2010.
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I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.
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Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.
-- Thiruvalluvar -
I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one.
-- Tommy Davidson -
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
-- Vanilla Ice -
When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.
-- Victoria Justice -
Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
-- Victoria Justice -
I get nervous before I conduct a concert, but then you just go out there and do it.
-- George BenjaminSource : Source: www.sfgate.com
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Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well.
-- George BenjaminSource : Source: www.sfgate.com
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I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.
-- Josh YoungSource : "SOUND OFF Special Interview: Josh Young Talks Solo Album, AMAZING GRACE Workshop & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 7, 2012.
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I have a lot of experience in playing all sorts of venues. And one of my interests is to understand what constitutes the vibe of a place and what makes one concert different from another. You can't fully measure or calculate these things, yet they are absolutely evident once you're on stage.
-- Justin AdamsSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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One of my interests is to understand what constitutes the vibe of a place and what makes one concert different from another.
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I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.
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Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.
-- Michael Hersch -
When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.
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Every once in a while I'll find a new way of playing something, it will suggest itself. But generally speaking, there's a set sonic potential, and that's in concert with a set instrumental technique.
-- Z'EVSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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When you go to a great concert something that happens is there is a deep sense of communality and connectedness one to another - as though we are all looking to eachother and saying yeah, we get it, we're all on one page.
-- Bill HensonSource : Source: www.americansuburbx.com
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Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.
-- PlanningtorockSource : Source: thequietus.com
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I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.
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Britain has the IRA and no one cancels concerts there.
-- Sharon Osbourne -
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Everyone should be able to go to a concert and enjoy music, and not feel like they're going to be harassed. That's how I see punk music.
-- Joe Armstrong