Concerts Quotes - Page 9

• I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

  Bono

  Debt, World, Situation

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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• I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.

  Frederic Chopin

  Long, People, World

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.

  Robert Fripp

  Kings, Responsibility, Expectations

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• My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

  Lady Gaga

  Protective

  "Maxim Monday: Lady Gaga Says Everyone Wants To See Her You-Know-What". Maxim Magazine Interview, www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll — but he's made me a convert. I do go to their concerts whenever we're in the same town and I don't even have to wear earplugs any more, which I did in the beginning.

  Blythe Danner

  Rocks, Fans, Towns

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• As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

  John Lydon

  Song, Certain, Young

  "I don't hate Pink Floyd" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Powerful, Practice, Two

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• I feel that classical music should be a more recognizable part of everyone’s entertainment. It has been my hope that through live concerts, motion pictures, recordings, international competitions, and interesting public forums, a larger group of people will learn to love classical music and attend live concert performances.

  Jose Iturbi

  Live Concerts, People, Interesting

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• I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.

  Kevin Plank

  Freak, Making Money, I Realized

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• When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss.

  Robert Greenberg

  Dental Floss, Hands, Wind

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• It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.

  Robert Smith

  Nice, People, Listening

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• Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.

  Steven Johnson

  Memories, Party, Mean

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• I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.

  Frederic Chopin

  Paris, People, Ass

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.

  Regina Brett

  Kids, Iphone, Order

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• What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

  Alan Licht

  Guitar, Play, Wings

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• Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well.

  George Benjamin

  Joy, Dangerous, Anything Can Happen

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and the Scherzo more or less correctly. I was about to attack the March when suddenly I saw arising from the body of my piano those cursed creatures which had appeared to me one lugubrious night at the Chartreuse. I had to leave for one instant to pull myself together after which I continued without saying anything.

  Frederic Chopin

  Adventure, Night, Piano

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• One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.

  Frederic Chopin

  Beautiful, Keys, Hands

  "Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils". Book by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, 1986.

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• Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Fighting, Tape, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

  Bret Michaels

  Summer, Shoes, Watches

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• The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Home, Challenges

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• Parents and children seldom act in concert:
  each child endeavors to appropriate
  the esteem or fondness of the parents,
  and the parents, with yet less temptation,
  betray each other to their children.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Parent, Temptation

  Samuel Johnson (1809). “Rasselas: A Tale”, p.78

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• There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Perfect, Privacy, Halls

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.87, Vintage

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• I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke

  Thom Yorke

  Dancing, Damage, Tasers

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• He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter.

  Ken Grimwood

  Laughter, Play, Dating

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