Concerts Quotes - Page 5

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

David Ogden Stiers

Disappointment, Kids, Surround Sound

Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Brad Pitt

Time, Poverty, Evening

"Hyde Park centre stage of greatest show on earth" by Vanessa Thorpe and Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2005.

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Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Deborah Tannen

Communication, Independence, Cogs

Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

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It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.

Marilyn Manson

God, Philosophy, People

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It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Live Concerts, Generosity, Roles

Statement by the Minister for Agriculture, Sharon Dijksma, at the opening of the Global Oceans Action Summit for Food Security and Blue Growth, www.government.nl. April 22, 2014.

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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.

B. B. King

Cds, Long, People

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I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.

Robert Smith

Jobs, Play, People

"The talking Cure". Interview with Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2004.

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Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

Jimmy Buffett

Song, Reading, Years

Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.

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I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

Francis Ford Coppola

Strong, Father, Numbers

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The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

Rem Koolhaas

Names, Shapes, Want

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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

Cameron Diaz

Kids, Hair, Jeans

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And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

Wanda Jackson

Albums, Sweden, Firsts

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A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

Klaus Schulze

Music, Albums, Common

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To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

Holly Near

Song, Men, Perspective

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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Carlos Santana

Dance, Spiritual, Jobs

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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

George Jones

Country, Artist, Support

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I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Luc Ferrari

Firsts, Concrete

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Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

Carly Simon

Years, Done, Four

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Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.

Kurt Masur

War, Opportunity, World

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Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

Robert Smith

Thinking, People, Looks

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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Fran Drescher

Tickets, Events, Tables

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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Stendhal

Gun, Politics, Impossible

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Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

David Ogden Stiers

Benefits, Orchestra

Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

Patrick Swayze

Pregnancy, Dancer, Magic

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My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

Amy Tan

Jobs, Taken, Doctors

"Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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