Concerts Quotes - Page 34

• You've got to have the right attire for the right event. I attend a lot of dinners, a lot of concerts, and I have to be on the red carpet; each has its own dress code, and I have to be prepared. Jeans and a hoodie are great for a concert, but a dinner party?

  Amar'e Stoudemire

  Party, Jeans, Events

  "A New (Six-Foot-Ten) New Yorker Takes on Fashion Week" by Josh Peskowitz, www.esquire.com. September 9, 2010.

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• You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of the people that come see you at the venue listen to a lot of different kinds of music, not only hip-hop; they're not heads. From time to time you're going to do a little concert in front of three or four hundred people that are only hip-hop heads and they're going to understand and know all about the gimmicks and the swagger but the rest of the people are just regular European people that listen to pop [or] rock & roll.

  K-Maro

  Wise, Rocks, Europe

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly. But I don't really have a schedule now that's very challenging. I make the calls and I call the shots, so I feel reasonably centered. Sometimes, I wonder whether or not it's even necessary to do concerts and stuff.

  Robert Plant

  Moving, Challenges, Schedules

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees. I don't know if you remember the Bee Gees. My mom took me. I was little. But my mom was a big disco fan, and - my mom took me to the Bee Gees. Looking back now, it's pretty embarrassing if your first concert was with your mom.

  Rob Huebel

  Mom, Fans, Littles

  "Rob Huebel on meeting Paul McCartney and how he knows Bigfoot exists". "11 Questions" with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2016.

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• The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Dream, Memories, Waking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Doing something new and challenging. It can be anything from starting a business to playing a sport. Seeing a great concert, looking at extraordinary art, or being in nature. More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

  Amber Valletta

  Sports, Art, Son

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• The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

  Robbie Robertson

  Stupid, Rocks, Ideas

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in The Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• Anyone who buys a ticket can just go in there, and I don't like everyone, so I always see concerts as like, I'm going to get punched, I'm going to get elbowed, I'm going to get stepped on, get spilled on, someone's going to hit me with their body odor or something.

  Baron Vaughn

  Odor, Body, Tickets

  "Baron Vaughn on getting stabbed and becoming Tom Servo". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.

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• I love working in film and television, but I do miss singing on stage. You can't find that anywhere else, so I hope this opens up a whole new concert world for me. I had so much fun and it went so well, I hope it leads to more.

  Aaron Tveit

  Fun, Missing, Singing

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

  Paul Lansky

  Performers, Performances, Live Performance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of albums. I got to meet him the first time I saw them in concert at The Bottleneck, a great bar in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, he was the musical guest my first or second week as a writer on SNL. I was like, "I don't know if you remember me?" And he was like, "Oh my god, yeah!" He's a big photography fan, as am I.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Photography, Couple, Kansas

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them.

  Joan Baez

  Thinking, Aunt, People

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book.

  Elton John

  Book, Commitment, Judging

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm less interested in uniqueness than in goodness. I see so many concerts where the program notes are more interesting than the music. I remember talking to one composer who went through the most complicated mathematical algorithm to generate some material from scratch. It took weeks and weeks, and he came up with a C major chord. For me, honesty is more interesting than originality.

  Anna Meredith

  Honesty, Talking, Interesting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Mind, Groups

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Perfection, Desire, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I felt that people would criticize everything. I was so scared about playing Paris. I was very much aware that the greatest concerts my father and mother had done were there. I was sure people would be very tough.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Mother, Father, Paris

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• To me, there's a difference between going to a concert and getting a recording. It's almost like a different release. The physical album itself is the more meaningful one for me, but I don't want to tell people how to listen to music.

  Tristan Perich

  Meaningful, Differences, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've never been drawn to concert DVDs because they take away the part of the equation that's most important to seeing a live show: getting jostled around and feeling the energy in the room. I definitely didn't want to make one of those.

  Feist

  Dvds, Feelings, Important

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2010.

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• Every once in a while I'll find a new way of playing something, it will suggest itself. But generally speaking, there's a set sonic potential, and that's in concert with a set instrumental technique.

  Z'EV

  Technique, Way, New Ways

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Memories were in my mind during nearly all the concerts I've done, and I realized the deep connection to my childhood, when I went out in the morning and the only thing my mom said was, "Come back before dark." What trust and what freedom!

  Volker Bertelmann

  Mom, Morning, Memories

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!

  Volker Bertelmann

  Piano, Sometimes, Surprise

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I can't say that electronic gear is restrictive. I think it is a challenge to play with electronic gear, and I regularly [perform] concerts with guys who are processing sound.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

  Mavis Staples

  Song, Grateful, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

  Prefuse 73

  Mother, Play, Parks

  Interview with Jamin Warren, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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