Concerts Quotes

• We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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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 Rosen

  Hearing, Performances, Altered

  Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

  Andy Gibb

  People, Giving, Trying

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• I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Death, Thinking, Museums

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• I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

  Boz Scaggs

  Years, Trying, Rays

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• My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

  Bernie Worrell

  Mother, Pianist, Wanted

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• I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

  Carole King

  Eric, London, Royal

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• People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

  James Young

  Rocks, People, Giving

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• 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.

  Lara St. John

  Crowds, Strange, Reactions

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• When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.

  Ronnie Spector

  Air, Hands, People

  "Phil Spector, Obama fan" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2008.

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• Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Home, Tired, House

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• I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.

  Norman Granz

  Years, Four, Six

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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

  Bass, Used

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• When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Ideas, Finals, Lists

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• I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

  Fran Drescher

  Rocks, Eclectic Style, Taste In Music

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

  Emanuel Ax

  Ends, Please, Mines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

  Martin Short

  Mother, Symphony, Masters

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• If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

  Emanuel Ax

  Jobs, Thinking, Done

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• If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.

  Fran Drescher

  Events, Vip, Way

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• Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies

  Marvin Hamlisch

  People, Doubt, Mind

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• Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

  Elliott Carter

  Zero, Paris, London

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

  Placido Domingo

  Opera, More Money, Clear

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

  Slick Rick

  Live Concerts

  "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.

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

  Derek Bailey

  Murder, Solo

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

  Paul Kantner

  Rocks, Business Meeting, Meetings

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