Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Rosen

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

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.

Carl Jung

Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

Bernie Worrell

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

Betty Buckley

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

David Guetta

I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

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

Arthur Rubinstein

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

Derek Bailey

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

Kim Kardashian

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

Sohail Khan

He is eager to get back to work. He is concerned about the delay in the Rock Stars concerts and is making every effort to get his schedule back on track.

Help-In-Crisis asks the communities to support our agency by attending one or both of the concerts as we observe October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month,

We've been trying to get away from the staid, traditional format of chamber music concerts because we're losing audience members to age. Chamber music is too easily seen as blue-hair stuff. That's why we have to get even more creative while maintaining the integrity of the series.

Justin Smith

We've done several concerts to promote literacy... anywhere from children in Africa to children in St. George. It's definitely something that we have always been supportive of.

Aleksey Igudesman

We are fans of Mozart and Beethoven, as well 'South Park' and Borat. We believe that we can attract many people who eschew the serious ambiance of concert halls and don't go to classical music concerts because of such reasons. However, there is a 'serious humor' on the stage: funny and ridiculous. That is important!

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.

Judy Collins

I'm always on tour, so that's something that goes on that's pretty constant. Seventy to 80 concerts a year. I'm on the road about 160 days a year.

Roberta Flack

I have my own charity I am trying to get off the ground as well, which some of my concerts go toward funding, ... I am building a school-the Roberta Flack School of Music-in two brownstones I purchased in New York City. The purpose is to help other young musician artists just as I received good teaching and help from my family and friends back home.

Matisyahu

I felt a real strong connection and still do with Hanukkah. So it started out by doing concerts on Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights tour, and then, yeah, let's make some Hanukkah songs. Let me make a Hanukkah song that kids can listen to, party to and get the spirituality of it, because it is not just about dreidels and having fun.

Kellin Quinn

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.

Suzanne Vega

Marc will do his best to reschedule the concerts after he has fully recovered from this incident. Suzanne has agreed to join him for the rescheduled dates.

Gretchen Wilson

Many young people attend your concerts and purchase your music and T-shirts, ... Because your actions strongly influence the youth in your audience ... I ask you to take steps to warn young people of negative health effects of smokeless tobacco use.

It is going to be really exciting because the concerts I am conducting will be graduate students. I think they will be outstanding.

Aleksey Igudesman

It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. They even make guest appearances in our concerts occasionally.

Kelli O'Hara

I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early.

Bebe Neuwirth

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

Dave Foley

The association concerts provide quality, live entertainment that people can afford,

Bono

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.

Archibald MacLeish

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

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.

Julian Bond

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.