Concerts Quotes - Page 27

• I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one.

  Tommy Davidson

  Television, Clubs, Halls

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• I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.

  Dierks Bentley

  Cheer, Nice, Awards

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• I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.

  Doug E. Fresh

  New York, Television, Clubs

  "Doug E. Fresh talks 'teach me how to dougie', Pharrell collabo" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 7, 2010.

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• The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Track, Black, Albums

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. July 09, 2004.

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

  Dar Williams

  Home, Trying, Be Careful

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• The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

  Dar Williams

  Saws, Firsts

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• I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.

  Kara Lindsay

  Summer, New York, Yoga

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• To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.

  PSY

  Song, Rocks, Korea

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• I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna.

  PSY

  Goal, Finals, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

  Sondre Lerche

  Records, Dynamics, Way

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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 Lerche

  Writing, Old Fashioned, Feels

  "Sondre Lerche’s Barn Identity". Interview with Chloe Eichler, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2011.

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• There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Museums, Scene, Theater

  "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

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• The adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament is the end of the Church Militant, just as adoration of God in His glory is the end of the Church Triumphant. A holy rivalry, a concert of prayer, a harmony of divine service should exist between the heavenly court and the Eucharistic court here below, between the adorer and his mother the Church.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Mother, Jesus, Prayer

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• In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.167

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• Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,
  Gathers and melts.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Crowds, Wealth

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• A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

  Walt Disney

  Emotional, Listening, Kind

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• What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?

  Itay Talgam

  Musician, Minimum Wage, Opera

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• Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.

  Michael Wilbon

  Night, Jordan, Enough

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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

  Tunes, Oneself, Hard

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• I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.

  Tom Lehrer

  People, Television, Stuff

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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

  Archibald MacLeish

  Spots, Occasional, Heard

  1967 In the Observer,12 Feb.

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• When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

  Amy Lee

  Fun, School, Lessons

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• The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.

  Amy Lee

  Sexy, Dog, Powerful

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• People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline... can be traced, at least in part, to unconscious stimuli that make us live faster.

  Frank Partnoy

  Fun, Museums, People

  Frank Partnoy (2012). “Wait: The useful art of procrastination”, p.56, Profile Books

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• Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Heaven, Musician

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.262

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