Concerts Quotes - Page 4

• If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.

  Donna Summer

  Want, Scream, Knows

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• Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear

  Brian May

  Unique, People, Giving

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• A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Live Concerts, Pits

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• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  Deborah Tannen

  Communication, Independence, Cogs

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

  Brad Pitt

  Time, Poverty, Evening

  "Hyde Park centre stage of greatest show on earth" by Vanessa Thorpe and Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2005.

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• In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

  Cat Stevens

  Firefighter, Style, Experience

  "Feline groovy". Interview with Molloy Woodcraft, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2004.

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• I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Teaching, Perspective, Support

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• Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Birthday, San Francisco, Giving

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• Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Disappointment, Kids, Surround Sound

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

  Nina Simone

  Teacher, World, Made

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• Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.

  William S. Burroughs

  Artist, Color, Museums

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• Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

  Theodore Bikel

  Artist, Theatre, Labels

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• And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Opportunity, Wonderful, Modern

  Interview with Spence D., Peer Schneider, Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.

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• The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Play, Symphony, Starting Over

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• Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Crazy, People

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Taken, Years, Evening

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• In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Lonely, Reading, Mind

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• The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

  Shelley Berman

  Memorable, Firsts, Carnegie

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

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• In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Numbers, Good Man, Musician

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.331, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

  Cy Coleman

  People, Teens, Pianist

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• People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

  Bryn Terfel

  Thinking, People, House

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• I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Europe, Together, Sound

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• The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

  Leon Askin

  Mother, Theatre, Fields

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

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• I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Musician, Berlin, September

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• It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

  Van Morrison

  Play, America, Sitting Down

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