Festivals Quotes - Page 11

• In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.

  Thomas Frank

  Hipster, Teenager, Eye

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.113, MIT Press

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• Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

  Michael Franti

  Creating, Band, Things I Love

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• People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Years, Cannes Film Festival, People

  "Cinema is over". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.

  Hunter Hayes

  Song, Couple, Weekend

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• I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

  Tom Hiddleston

  War, Journey, Play

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• Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Summer, Home, Holiday

  "Mind the beer, dear" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2006.

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• I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Home, Long, Parks

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

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• I've always been dead set against festivals, really suspicious and wary.

  Elton John

  Suspicious

  "Elton John: 'When I was on drugs there was a monstrous side to me'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2013.

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• I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Rocks, Guitar, Fans

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

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• To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.

  Hugh Masekela

  Men, Airports, Clubs

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• When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.

  Moby

  Song, Air, Hands

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• We have a small, tight family. I left home at a young age and the best thing for me was to go home at Christmas-time and spend time with my family and friends. It's kind of funny, most people do turkey and all the trimmings, but we would have a big seafood festival because it's the only time of the year that we'd eat it. We never really went caroling, but once in a while we'd got out for a sleigh ride

  Jimmy Roy

  Funny Christmas, Home, Years

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• Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Blood, Names

  "Wine Buyers Guide".

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• On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Illumination, Race, People

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.515, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.

  Rick Strassman

  Religious, Israel, California

  Rick Strassman, M.D. (2000). “DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences”, p.295, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars, and a beachside music festival before thousands of cheering fans. He conveys the thrills and challenges of living abroad, the confusions and regrets, and most of all the opportunity to become the person we always hoped to be.

  Peter Hessler

  Regret, Cheer, Opportunity

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• I’ve found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Needs, Speech

  "Pete Seeger’s Last War". Interview with David Hajdu, www.motherjones.com. September 2004.

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• Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

  Joan Van Ark

  Character, Colorado, Boulders

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• Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.

  Geraldine James

  Animal, Japan, Hot

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• Beach balls at festivals are the work of the devil.

  Gerard Way

  Beach, Devil, Balls

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• You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Next, Jazz

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• I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.

  Jim Shepard

  Boys, Unhappy, Unseen

  Jim Shepard (2008). “Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories”, p.130, Vintage

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• No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It is dedicated to peace, civilization and the triumphs of industry. It is a demonstration of fraternity and the harbinger of a better age-a more chivalrous time, when labor shall be best honored and well rewarded.

  Peter J. McGuire

  War, Civilization, Honor

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• Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

  Epictetus

  Life, Men, Trying

  Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.3, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  America, Effort, Mind

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