Venues Quotes - Page 3

• Comparing yourself to the people like you, comparing yourself to the people who aren't like you, looking at how many records you've sold, looking at the venue size you're selling out. None of that can even remotely measure how happy you are.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Records, Size

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I do remember seeing Godspell or Jesus Christ Superstar, one of those. It was a liberation theology venue. Anything radical seemed to be accepted there. I definitely picked up the idea there that you should question authority.

  Ian MacKaye

  Jesus, Ideas, Superstar

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Ours is a very eclectic offering. We're affiliated with the church but we're not just offering church music. Our philosophy is that we wanted to bring quality music to the entire valley and let everyone enjoy it since we have a fine venue.

  John Wright

  Philosophy, Offering, Church Music

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• I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would be a good venue for a 3-D movie, but there were rights issues with 'Swamp Thing.'

  Joel Silver

  Thinking, Rights, Ideas

  "Producer Joel Silver on Splice, Logan’s Run, Swamp Thing, the Apparation, Project-x, Unknown White Male". Press Day Interview, collider.com. May 22, 2010.

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• Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

  David Sanborn

  Media, Instrumental Music, Outlets

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• The Beatles realized that what they were making in the studio could never be performed. And they had already given up on performing because there were too many screaming fans and they were playing in larger and larger venues so they couldn't even hear what they were playing, it just wasn't any fun any more.

  Tod Machover

  Fun, Fans, Given

  "A Conversation with MIT Lab Inventor & Composer Tod Machover". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Interesting, Different, Would Be

  "'The Night Circus' looks to enchant fans of 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.

  Sonny Rollins

  Atmosphere, Clubs, Jazz

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• You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

  Sondre Lerche

  Play, Arena, Intimate

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• I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions.

  Edward Einhorn

  Thinking, People, Elements

  Source: www.tor.com

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• I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

  Pete Townshend

  Inspirational, Dance, Dad

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• I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

  Martha Wainwright

  Children, Dad, Night

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• As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Levels, Sound, Boards

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• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Country, School, Rocks

  Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I would show up at any venue that had an open mic.

  Ludacris

  Mics, Shows

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• This is the premiere food symposium in the world. To quote you guys: 'Intended to invoke a sense of courage and urgency...Enabling this year's symposium to become a venue where we can reflect on the stories and ideas that no one usually gets the opportunity to tell.' So I stand here with the guts to ask you, please, let's do something. Let's do something and feed those that we're not reaching collectively.

  Roy Choi

  Opportunity, Years, Ideas

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• It seems a little bit like the home of the U.S. Open in the States. For all the venues of the U.S. Open this is more synonymous for the U.S. Open than any other one.

  Padraig Harrington

  Home, Golf, Littles

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• A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to...no matter how many times you have been there before.

  Lee Westwood

  Golf, Looks, Matter

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• The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.

  Isaac Marion

  Sports, Party, Home

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn’t keep in touch. They’re probably taxi drivers and accountants by now.

  Craig Ferguson

  Nice, Band, Pieces

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• I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot, sweaty. Those are always the fun shows.

  Yelawolf

  Fun, Mean, Hot

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• Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Feminist, Feminism, Literature

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• To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

  Ian Bogost

  Able, Way, Sane

  Source: app.longform.org

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• I'm obsessed with the venue and the people so it's going to be really fun.The last couple of tours I didn't have anything like that because of the budget, so I'm super excited because this is really going to bring the album to life.

  Melanie Martinez

  Couple, Fun, People

  Source: nocountryfornewnashville.com

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• The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux.

  Tim Allen

  Beautiful, Real, Nice

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

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