Festivals Quotes - Page 9

• Obviously there is stuff that I wouldn't play in a club that I play at festivals, and vice-versa, but my sets are still dominated largely by my own music. I think that's what makes me stand out a bit. My music is also festival- and club-friendly, so it generally works out well.

  Avicii

  Thinking, Play, Work Out

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

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• No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, or feasts he looks out with the same nice self-composure.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Nice, Men, Self

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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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• A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

  John Steinbeck

  Funeral, Kind, Stage

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• The first time I came to the Comedy Festival some nutcase shot a bunch of people in Tasmania. I thought, 'Oh, that's just Tasmania.' The second time I came, some nut shot up Columbine High School. Now I'm here again, and another nut just shot up a high school in Minnesota. If you can't see the connection between me playing the Comedy Festival and mass murder, you're no good at conspiracy theories.

  Rich Hall

  School, Nuts, People

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• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Religious, Children, Diversity

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• I'm just gonna make movies the best I can, do the festival thing or whatever can come. I plan on working with a lot of the same guys over and over again. I hope the majority of us can stick together.

  Evan Glodell

  Guy, Together, Majority

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

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• I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

  Robert Englund

  Italian, Venice, Comedy

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

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• I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

  Ethan Hawke

  Fun, Taken, Years

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• I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

  Lamorne Morris

  Love Is, Long, Music Festival

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• I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

  Adele

  Bigs, Audience

  Interview to Q magazine, www.huffingtonpost.com. Jul 25, 2011.

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• When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

  Lars von Trier

  Film, Stakes, Shows

  "Interview: Lars von Trier" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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