Concerts Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Ideas, Innovation, Together

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  A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Live Concerts, Crowds

  "Paranoia & Power : Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons" by Gene N Landrum, (p. 60), 2007.

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• I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.

  Rita Coolidge

  Heart, My Heart

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• I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Writing, Periods

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• I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.

  Colin Greenwood

  Brother, Musical, Ends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

  Bernie Worrell

  Art, School, Students

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• If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Reality

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

  Teddy Wilson

  Symphony, Orchestra, Sound

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• I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my black bass player for my old white bass player, which I wouldn't do.

  Dave Brubeck

  Player, White, Black

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• I wouldn't say I was sexy! But I guess that's fine if that's what they say. I like that in concert. That's neat.

  Michael Jackson

  Sexy, Fine, Neat

  Interview with Sylvie Simmons, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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• We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

  Amy Tan

  People, Half, Firsts

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• One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.

  Slash

  Fun, Men, Wisconsin

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• Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts

  Thom Yorke

  Black, Trying, Flaws

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• The net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making. It facilitates the process of information sharing to such an extent that many groups can work in concert with one another without the need to achieve monolithic consensus.

  Naomi Klein

  Information Sharing, Decision, Groups

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• At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.

  James Elkins

  Music, Fire, Rainbow

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• My fans -- when I see them somewhere, outside my concerts -- I get that, that vibe. They're really supporting my projects and everything, because it's a first time that a Turkish singer is, you know, able to express himself out of Turkey.

  Tarkan

  Turkeys, Fans, Singers

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• I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Giving, Dumb

  "It'll be alright on the night: how musicians cope with performance stress" by David Cox, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2015.

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• I really liked Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie it was like NASCAR for potheads.

  Ann Coulter

  Ties, Tie Dye, Uniforms

  Interview in "Jambands", June 23, 2006.

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• I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.

  Eamon

  Football, Running, Nice

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• Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Art, Writing, Should Have

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• A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.

  Calvin Seerveld

  Christian, Men, Community

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• [the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality

  Anton Webern

  Eye, Reality, Years

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• Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Agency, Concurrence, Industry

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.73

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