Concerts Quotes - Page 30

• Some artists just go and play, and I have no objections to that - but I don't like to do that. People take their very precious time to come to my concert, and they give me the opportunity to share two hours of their lives. I want to do the best I can, for visuals, sound and everything!

  Hiromi

  Artist, Opportunity, Play

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• People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.

  Brett Dennen

  Song, Play, People

  Source: www.gigslutz.co.uk

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• The organization and the environment are in concert.

  Kevin Kelly

  Organization, Environmental, Literature

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• I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.

  John Towner Williams

  Frustrated, Relief, Variation

  "The force is with him". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2002.

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• The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

  Voltaire

  Music, Animal, Class

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.238

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• I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn't easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.

  Adam Ant

  Song, Play, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Having sex with her is incredible. It's just like a concert. We throw Frisbees around the room. And when she wants more she lights a match.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.

  Slash

  People, Fans, Band

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, music.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

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• The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren't really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing where they had a Poison concert on VH1, and to me, that is being attached to an era.

  Slash

  Poison, Eras, Saws

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

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• But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.

  Cliff Richard

  People, Everyday, Hobbies

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• I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and some guy who's bought a ticket decides he's going to throw a bottle at my head. That's a simple act of stupidity. That's not even defiance.

  Billy Corgan

  Stupid, Simple, People

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at concerts and the musicians who played on Sunday evenings on street corners. By the time I grew up in the '80s, all of this was a thing of the past. I lived vicariously through his stories and often wondered what it would have felt like to have been part of his generation.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Sunday, Past, Musical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists in human behavior; if it exists out there then it can exist on the stage. I really try to go to a lot of concerts. A lot of live events. I just try to keep my ears really, really open.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Thinking, Trying, Events

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• I'm experiencing the mood to go out and share the music. I don't look at these concerts as a platform for people to watch me, look at me. No, a tour is about an interaction. A thing, myself, a band, and the people who support what I do and enjoy what I do.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Support, Watches

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• I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can't do it without them, so it's really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that's very satisfying and very magical.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Giving, Energy

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• I'm looking forward to going out at the concert with a clear head, with a clear mind, with a clear spirit and experiencing whatever it is. It's great.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Clear Head, Mind, Going Out

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• To me, there's nothing worse than going to a concert and you're so looking forward to hearing your favorite song and they never play it. You're gutted.

  Dido Armstrong

  Song, Play, Hearing

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I think play and joy and feeling good deserve more of our time. I don't see why adults are supposed to grow out of those things. If I have a mission it's to make everyone who comes to my concerts leave feeling a heightened sense of freedom to play, sing, and enjoy themselves.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Thinking, Deserve More, Play

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That's something I've learned about, because it's the story that keeps you in there. I wrote a libretto and I gave it to John Du Prez. We normally don't work in this fashion but I said off you go, and he went off for about three months. He brought me back this demo which blew my mind.

  Eric Idle

  Fashion, Years, Mind

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm at my 3 year-olds year-end concert. It's full of very off-key, mostly unfocused children, but this father is still beaming. Must be how God feels on Sunday.

  Mark Hart

  Children, Father, Sunday

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• The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Sex, Real, Struggle

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• I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sports, Listening, Events

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music performance, achieves a kind of transcendence that I associate with spirituality. It's the closest thing to what I think people expect church to be like. Or maybe just what I've always thought church should be. You lose yourself, and at the same time come to the realization or understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm addicted to women. Believe me, as Shaggy, after every concert, there's drawers that are dropping.

  Shaggy

  Believe, Dropping, Drawers

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• Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  School, Holiday, Mean

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