Concerts Quotations

Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

The Weezer 'Blue' Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket's 'Circuital' is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin album. Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' or 'Animals.' I always catch myself at concerts being like, 'Oh, I just stared at the drummer for 15 straight minutes.' I study them.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.

The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

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.

I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.

I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in getting me auditions. By the time I was 7, I was playing concerts - it was just ridiculous.

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.

I love dill pickles! They're on my rider for my concerts so I eat one every day.

I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve.

Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.

We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.

I open all my concerts with 'My Backpages,' written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with 'May the Road Rise to Meet You,' written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn.

The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.

When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.

I never really went to any concerts that I wasn't in.

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.

I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.

I mostly did musicals and concerts when I was younger, and then I realized I don't quite have the voice for it, so I went into acting, which I enjoy more.

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.

The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.

I think fans going to concerts expect more today in terms of meeting and things. It's cool - I get it because of how the Internet has made things much more personal for fans to follow with Facebook, Twitter and everything - but I also think it's kind of hindering because it takes from the music in a way.

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.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

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.

If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.

In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

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.

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

A concert is always like a feast day to me.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.

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.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records.

It's wonderful doing concerts in places like New York and London, but I feel a responsibility to also bring my work home, to bring world-class, classical music to Somerset.

When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

People don't come to my concerts because they know the program. They come because they love the atmosphere and because they know that when I offer them a program it will be a night they never forget.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.

I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.

It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics.

I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state - perhaps more time than I spend performing anywhere else in the world. I have a great relationship with the people of Ohio, and it's great to be near the OSU when I come to Columbus.

I don't actually go to that many concerts.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

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.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.

When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

We appreciate all our performers for their willingness to donate their time and talents and remind everyone these concerts are totally free. The flowers are blooming, the park is lovely and the talent is there to be enjoyed - come and join us.

We're going to have our parades, we're going to have our symphonies, our concerts and everyone's going to have good time,

With the last few years of consecutive declines in attendance, the trends for live concerts overall aren't particularly encouraging.

We want folks to leave our concerts feeling better than when they arrived.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

We thought we could get the same type of experience without extending ourselves to promote concerts and those type of things.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

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.'

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

Many kids who are using this type of technology are plugging virtual rock concerts into their ears. Parents, grandparents and all other significant adults in our children's lives need to be aware of the risk and make sure the children are, too.

She was trained to be an opera singer. She gave concerts to raise money for him, and when he died she continued to try to keep his legacy alive.

My friends hate me because I can get in to all these concerts now.

Neither DATA nor Bono are involved in these (fundraisers), and they cannot be controlled. The U2 concerts are categorically not fundraisers for any politician; they are rock concerts for U2 fans.

New Jersey residents are loving our concerts more and more, but for Pennsylvanians, we're still an undiscovered gem across the river.

Imagine a performance with huge crowds, the city closing off River Drive for festivals and concerts where everyone could gather on the campus grounds as a setting. It would be a great gathering lawn that would easily hold 5,000.