Concerts Quotes - Page 7

• 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 did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.

  Al Green

  Atlanta, White, Black

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• Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.

  Alexei Navalny

  Purple, Pussy, Musician

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• If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

  Laura Benanti

  Broadway, Audience, Fronts

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's really a lot of fun to see that this music can actually survive, that it can be concert music. My solo shows are already going along that path. You have the freedom to basically push to party, or you can tell a story from nothing with soundscapes, moving images, to a real party mood. At some concerts, people get out of their seats and start dancing after a while.

  Pantha du Prince

  Fun, Real, Party

  "Pantha du Prince’s Bell Hooks". Interview with Nathan Reese, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.

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• We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

  Jakob Bohme

  Joy, Strings

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• If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

  Ned Rorem

  Creative, Might, Playing Music

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• Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Church, Inheritance, Should

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• I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.

  Laura Davies

  Party, Thinking, Radio

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• When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.

  Cate Blanchett

  Two, People, Crowds

  Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I just want to be worthy. I just want to be able to make people understand that okay, Eddie is still good at what he does, so we can now go and buy that ticket [to his concert], and I can feel like they bought it and they got their money's worth.

  Eddie Levert

  People, Doe, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall.
  But classical is not - the reference is wrong, because classical on one hand refers to one period in musical history, which is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, which is a fine period in musical history, but it was a while ago.On the other hand, it sort of alludes to some kind of "class," which A, is not true; B, is kind of detrimental to the whole idea. Because the point is that this music is available and it's actually relatively reasonably priced.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Class, Ideas, Hands

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Going on You Tube, you see a lot of my videos. And I'm glad; there's numbers there. And I get this all the time, that when I'm actually in concert, there's a whole new level to it. There's this whole new energy level. It's hard to describe. But I just love to play, and I never take it for granted.

  Michael Angelo Batio

  Play, Numbers, Energy

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• My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she's coming to my show.

  Robert Glasper

  Girl, Kids, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• I literally wouldn't have dreamed of it in a million years that I'm going to be standing there with George (Strait) and Garth and Kenny (Chesney) and Reba (McEntire) and Brooks & Dunn. I don't really have any clue what I'm actually doing with those people because I feel like I'm still just getting started and I've seen them all in concert and they're all my heroes.

  Miranda Lambert

  Hero, Years, People

  "Miranda Lambert: Women in Country Have to Stick Together". Associated Press Interview, gulfnews.com. April 18, 2015.

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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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• 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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• It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.

  Howie Mandel

  The End Of The Day, Interviews, Six

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• I still get butterflies. It's because there's a certain level of responsibility you carry when doing a concert. You've got to sound at least as good as the record.

  Michael Bolton

  Responsibility, Butterfly, Sound

  "Michael Bolton: I never realised my hair was such a big deal". Interview with Rhiannon Vivian, www.mirror.co.uk. October 12, 2008.

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