Music Festival Quotes

• There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Thinking, People, Festivals

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

  Lamorne Morris

  Love Is, Long, Festivals

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• That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Meditation, Michigan, Tuning

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Vacation, Sound, Half

  "Listen: New Walkmen: 'Heaven'". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I love playing the CMA Music Festival each year because it's one of the very best audiences you could hope for. It's one of the places you can perform where you know everyone there is a big Country Music fan.

  Trace Adkins

  Country, Years, Fans

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• I think people probably lie about not reading their own reviews. I don't think that's true - I've been to a lot of music festivals and hung out backstage, especially in the past couple of years, and I see all these bands reading about themselves in newspapers. So I don't think that's true.

  Lily Allen

  Couple, Lying, Reading

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

  Gavin Bryars

  Festivals, Academic, Modern

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Horse, Real, Riding

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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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• 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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• When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Couple, Two, Dancing

  Interview with Win Butler, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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