Festivals Quotes - Page 8

• Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

  Gregory Harrison

  Musical, Hollywood, Firsts

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• In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.10, Library of America

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• My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It's like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun.

  Gerard Way

  Fun, Japan, Play

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• My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.

  Rachel Weisz

  Children, Real, Hippie

  "Toast of the tomb". www.theguardian.com. June 13, 1999.

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• I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.

  Joss Whedon

  Two, Toronto, Territory

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• I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

  Donnie Yen

  Japan, Aikido, Directors

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• Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.

  Felicia Day

  Years, Missing, Celebration

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

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• God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Greatness, Blood

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage

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• Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks

  Gerard Way

  Band, Stuff, Sun

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• At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, Celebration, Poor

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• As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Past, Terrible

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the flowering of life. The Goddess manifests as the May Queen and Flora. The God emerges as the May King and Jack in the Green. The danced Maypole represents Their unity, with the pole itself being the God and the ribbons that encompass it, the Goddess. Colors are the Rainbow spectrum. Beltane is a festival of flowers, fertility, sensuality, and delight.

  Selena Fox

  Kings, Queens, Spring

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• It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

  Abbie Hoffman

  People, Trials, Parks

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• The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.

  Michael Lang

  Country, Art, Dedication

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• History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors.  Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janis’ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part.  Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.

  George Wein

  Beautiful, Foundation, Directors

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• Martin's Monsanto poem holds devastating power. I heard the first public reading at the Resurgence Festival of well-being in London. It brought truth with clarity, not least with a kind of conviction and passion that is all too rare

  Tony Juniper

  Reading, Passion, London

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• And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.

  Rick Derringer

  Drinking, Beer, Play

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• We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.

  Mark E. Smith

  Son, Numbers, Groups

  "The Fall's Mark E. Smith Attacks Mumford & Sons" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 20, 2010.

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• I've always wanted to be a DJ so I could play the music I love for other people. That feeling hasn't changed, but my sets are always evolving. In terms of tailoring to a specific crowd, certainly I do play differently depending on the situation. It's a different feel, for example, in a small club versus a festival.

  Tiesto

  Play, People, Feelings

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

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• Stay well away from the enemies of Allâh during their festivals.

  Umar

  Enemy, Wells

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• Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count -- / Festival of the Souls.

  Matsuo Basho

  Thinking, Soul, Think Of You

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• We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel.

  Mavis Staples

  Song, Singing, Hearing

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• A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira. This comparison reduced my own limited charisma value to something like zero: Gabeira has excelled at every cultural activity in Brazil.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Love, Beautiful, Zero

  "Terrorists Ain't What They Used To Be" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 15, 2006.

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• I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

  Lesley Garrett

  Years, House, Opera

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• A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future

  Harvey Goldsmith

  Artist, Looks, Concerts

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