Concerts Quotes - Page 34

• The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Sex, Real, Struggle

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• I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists in human behavior; if it exists out there then it can exist on the stage. I really try to go to a lot of concerts. A lot of live events. I just try to keep my ears really, really open.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Thinking, Trying, Events

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• I'm experiencing the mood to go out and share the music. I don't look at these concerts as a platform for people to watch me, look at me. No, a tour is about an interaction. A thing, myself, a band, and the people who support what I do and enjoy what I do.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Support, Watches

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• I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can't do it without them, so it's really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that's very satisfying and very magical.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Giving, Energy

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• I'm looking forward to going out at the concert with a clear head, with a clear mind, with a clear spirit and experiencing whatever it is. It's great.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Clear Head, Mind, Going Out

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• To me, there's nothing worse than going to a concert and you're so looking forward to hearing your favorite song and they never play it. You're gutted.

  Dido Armstrong

  Song, Play, Hearing

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I think play and joy and feeling good deserve more of our time. I don't see why adults are supposed to grow out of those things. If I have a mission it's to make everyone who comes to my concerts leave feeling a heightened sense of freedom to play, sing, and enjoy themselves.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Thinking, Deserve More, Play

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That's something I've learned about, because it's the story that keeps you in there. I wrote a libretto and I gave it to John Du Prez. We normally don't work in this fashion but I said off you go, and he went off for about three months. He brought me back this demo which blew my mind.

  Eric Idle

  Fashion, Years, Mind

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm at my 3 year-olds year-end concert. It's full of very off-key, mostly unfocused children, but this father is still beaming. Must be how God feels on Sunday.

  Mark Hart

  Children, Father, Sunday

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• In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.

  Geoff Zanelli

  Believe, Ensemble, Ears

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• I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.

  Geoff Zanelli

  Writing, Thinking, Needs

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• I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Moving, Thinking

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• If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Depressing, Thinking, Cheerful

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• The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

  John Naisbitt

  Technology, Rocks, Shopping

  John Naisbitt (1983). “High tech/high touch”

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• Eating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an intense cardio workout.

  Curtis Jackson

  Workout, Successful, Eating Well

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• Courtney Love said she once escorted Kerry to a concert. John Kerry once went out with Courtney Love and he's questioning Bush's judgment.

  Jay Leno

  Judgment, Said, Questioning

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• Working together in concert more smoothly not only helps us move more quickly; it changes the nature of what we can undertake. When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Dream, Moving, Effort

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• It's so funny being a Christian musician. It always scares me when people think so highly of Christian music, Contemporary Christian music especially. Because I kinda go, I know a lot of us, and we don't know jack about anything. Not that I don't want you to buy our records and come to our concerts. I sure do. But you should come for entertainment. If you really want spiritual nourishment, you should go to church... you should read the Scriptures.

  Rich Mullins

  Christian, Spiritual, Thinking

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

  Robert McKee

  Meaningful, Emotional, Museums

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• I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Birth, Given

  "Dave Barry on Bieber, 'Fifty Shades' and Jane Austen". Interview with Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. March 5, 2014.

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• CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.

  Chris Stein

  Real, Rocks, Elements

  Source: time.com

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• When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Mom, Lame, Impress

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• I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

  Michel Legrand

  Home, Piano, Want

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• If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

  Marlo Thomas

  Book, World, Firsts

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• I like What Goes Around Comes Around for old concert tees. Oh man, I got this 'Sgt. Pepper' cartoon Beatles shirt there; it was, like, $300. I didn't even know how much it cost - I thought it was gonna be, like, $80 at most - till I got to the register and was like, 'Oh mah gawd!' Good Lord. But it's classic vintage rock, you know?

  Kid Cudi

  Men, Sgt Pepper, Rocks

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