Concerts Quotes - Page 3

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

  Gary Cole

  Environment, Intrigue, Whole

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

  Holly Near

  Song, Audience

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

  Fiona Apple

  Children, Kids, Ifs

  "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.

  Jared Leto

  Mother, Kids, Rocks

  AskMen Interview, uk.askmen.com. July 20, 2007.

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• The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

  Henry Miller

  Self, Form, Torture

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• Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Years, Snow, Mountain

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• My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

  Robert Ripley

  Friday, Morning, Aunt

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• I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

  Miley Cyrus

  Live Concerts, Nervous, Anxious

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• I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

  Paul Robeson

  Long, People, Musical

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

  Glenn Gould

  Museums, Records, Curator

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• We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.

  James Young

  Strong, Marijuana, Thinking

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• I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

  Rupert Holmes

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  Vince Gill

  Song, Dad, Play

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• I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

  Fran Drescher

  Beach, Art, Looks

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

  Edward Furlong

  Firsts, Aerosmith, Willing

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• The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

  Levon Helm

  Albums, Band, Bigs

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• Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

  Faith Hill

  Couple, Nashville, Different

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• Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.

  David Knopfler

  Views, Wonderful, Week

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• So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

  Mose Allison

  Years, Nightclubs

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• I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

  Mose Allison

  Play, Gigs, London

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• Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!

  Jerome Richardson

  Running, Hate, Guy

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• The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

  Norman Granz

  Fashion, Names, People

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• When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

  Norman Granz

  Names, America, Use

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• The fans have been really incredible everywhere we've been. You want to make sure you put on the best concert of your life to show them how appreciative you are.

  Jonathan Davis

  Want, Fans, Incredibles

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