Concerts Quotes - Page 14

• There are certain times in a concert when I'll call an audible because I feel like God is calling me to play a different song. But truthfully, I feel called to play for the church whether it's song being played on Christian radio or it's concerts I'm doing primarily in churches.

  Jonny Diaz

  Christian, Song, Play

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.

  Howard Shore

  Country, Inspiration, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

  Stendhal

  Imagination, Pistols, Middle

  "Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)". Book by Stendhal (Volume II, Chapter XXII), November 1830.

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• I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.

  Harrison Ford

  Jobs, Ideas, Community

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• The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

  Ayn Rand

  Beautiful, Exercise, Giving

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• At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.

  Thomas Beecham

  Play, Orchestra, Rehearsal

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• When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was a sophomore in high school. It was kind of rare to see a successful female rocker get down and dirty with the guys. And Courtney Love did. It was fun to be a fan of something different.

  Carrie Underwood

  Fun, Dirty, School

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• I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.

  Mike Bass

  Thinking, People, Sound

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• What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Differences, Clay, Dice

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• Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems around us, but without sacrificing all the niceties of civilization like good restaurants, concert halls, and high-speed Internet access. I'm saying that partly tongue-in-cheek, but I'm also deadly serious. The future of technology is sustainable ecology.

  Annalee Newitz

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Technology

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can go to India and draw 20,000 people at a concert, and it's really because I've built up an internet presence.

  Michael Angelo Batio

  People, India, Internet

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• I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him, 'He can't see you.'

  Anne Robinson

  Benefits, Saws, Wonder

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• The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.

  James Young

  Live Concerts, Two, Joy

  Source: m.washingtontimes.com

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• That might be the old model: to get a fixed fee. You have to start to think about other models and how they can generate interest - what it can do for a brand in the future - and about the fact that revenue can also be generated in many other ways... Just look at the one and a half million people at the free Rolling Stones concert in Cuba. And Cuba is not Central Park! So just use your imagination as to what kind of revenue can be made.

  Martin Sorrell

  Thinking, Central Park, People

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• Hamburg will have a new and important attraction with which it can distinguish itself from other cities. But the important thing is that activities should not just be limited to the building, but that the concert hall should symbolize a general mood of creative rejuvenation.

  Charles Landry

  Cities, Creative, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.

  Hugh Hardy

  War, Lincoln Center, Brave

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• Whatever your eye falls on. For it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Fall, Eye, Mind

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (2014). “The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd”, p.95, Milkweed Editions

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• My mom made me go to a Britney Spears concert when I was young. And I was like, 'No, I don't want to!' she was like, 'You're going to be a performer, you need to see other people.'

  Avril Lavigne

  Mom, People, Want

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• Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never have the sound of someone being nailed to a cross, or the sound of a child being born, because everybody knows the story. We know that we're meant to feel a complicated raft of things.

  Nico Muhly

  Children, Church, Sound

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community, and I had access to everything. I think that shaped me as an artist.

  Floyd Norman

  Art, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American poetry, combining Beat aesthetics, psychedelic imagery, collage techniques.

  Jay Michaelson

  Guitar, Careers, Technique

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

  Al Jarreau

  Garden, Years, Piano

  "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.

  Sam Haskins

  Simple, Piano, Cameras

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• Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

  Park Chan-wook

  Cities, Classical Music, Offers

  "On my radar: Park Chan-wook" by Corinne Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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• They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Hands, Left Hand, Very Good

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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