Concerts Quotes - Page 13

• This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Christian, Real, Thinking

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• You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best.

  Jimmy Page

  Music, Years, Determined

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• All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.

  Frederic Chopin

  Artist, Piano, People

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.

  Frederic Chopin

  People, Proud, Nonsense

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl'.... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs at age 13], and work to get all the laughs I could get.

  Sophie Tucker

  Girl, Piano, Laughing

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• It's your 21st birthday... What are you doing sober at the front row of a concert? Is it your 21st birthday? By the end of the night I promise... we will get you drunk, my friend.

  Andrew McMahon

  Night, Drunk, 21st Birthday

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• Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Play, Piano, Nurse

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• At concerts it makes me happy to see my Beliebers talking to each other because i made them family.

  Justin Bieber

  Talking, Made, Make Me Happy

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• We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Succeed, Imagine

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.537, Wildside Press LLC

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• [At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

  Conrad Aiken

  Music, Enchantment, Algebra

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• I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll — but he's made me a convert. I do go to their concerts whenever we're in the same town and I don't even have to wear earplugs any more, which I did in the beginning.

  Blythe Danner

  Rocks, Fans, Towns

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• Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.

  Steven Johnson

  Memories, Party, Mean

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• I've only been to one concert in my life.

  Sarah Paulson

  "'Cupid' stars Bobby Cannavale and Sarah Paulson take the EW Pop Culture Personality Test". Interview with Mandi Bierly, ew.com. March 31, 2009.

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• Put a small piano in a truck and drive out on country roads; take time to discover new scenery; stop in a pretty place where there is a good church; upload the piano and tell the residents; give a concert; offer flowers to the people who have been so kind as to attend; leave again.

  Sviatoslav Richter

  Country, Flower, Piano

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• I wanted to do what Marilyn Monroe did (during the Korean War), when she went and just set up a stage and did a concert for the troops all by herself. It's so amazing seeing that one woman just going somewhere, this beautiful sex kitten, who's basically a pinup, which is what I've always aspired to be.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Beautiful, Sex, War

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• Hilary Duff has been my role model forever. I went to her concert like right when her music started coming out when I was probably like 11. I was just amazed by her. So now, to be compared to her, it's like...holy moly. It's so cool!

  Miley Cyrus

  Role Models, Forever, Roles

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• Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need no further practice. They will tell you that the higher you climb in proficiency and public acceptance, the greater the need for practice.

  Eric Butterworth

  Athlete, Acceptance, Successful

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• For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

  Bryn Terfel

  Years, Cities, Three

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• The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

  Sandy Berger

  Iraq, Use, Hussein

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• What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

  Alan Licht

  Guitar, Play, Wings

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• Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous and played as I play when I am alone. It went well... and I had to come back and bow four times.

  Frederic Chopin

  Play, Yesterday, People

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• I Repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my Music, and more importantly, my Life has not provoked you into Godly Jealousy or to SELL OUT MORE COMPLETELY TO JESUS!

  Keith Green

  Song, Jesus, Godly

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• Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should say at the outset that the experiences recounted here were preceded by careful preparation, where the trip was presented as a learning experience and a process of self-discovery. They all took place in safe, supportive environments. They generally did not fit the stereotypical model of teenagers dropping acid at a rock concert, looking for awesome visuals and good vibes.

  Rick Doblin

  Powerful, Teenager, Dropping Acid

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• I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.

  Frederic Chopin

  People, Doubt, Unattractive

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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

  Wedding, Used, Ifs

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