Festivals Quotes - Page 11

• In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.

  Thomas Frank

  Hipster, Teenager, Eye

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.113, MIT Press

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• When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.

  Moby

  Song, Air, Hands

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• People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Years, Cannes Film Festival, People

  "Cinema is over". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• It feels good, it feels like a badge of honor, honestly. Amongst the artists here, in California, that festival is such a big deal. People live and die for Coachella. So to be a part of it on such a big scale is really flattering, and I feel really lucky to be part of the community.

  Zella Day

  Artist, California, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

  Michael Franti

  Creating, Band, Things I Love

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• Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

  Willem Dafoe

  Ideas, Levels, Film

  "From Jesus to Antichrist". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2009.

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• We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

  Julian Fellowes

  Nice, Party, Night

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• I like your own shows because you can have a bit more fun and extend your set, you can go a bit over if you want because it's your show. Whereas at festivals it's very strict, like if you go like two minutes over they get ready to pull the plug kind-of-thing. They're both good and bad.

  Flume

  I Like You, Fun, Two

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I stopped my iTunes festival set because someone fainted at the front. It felt like the right thing to do at the time but maybe I was being too sensitive.

  Rae Morris

  Sensitive, Things To Do, Itunes

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• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  Salma Hayek

  Cannes Film Festival, Directors, Female

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• When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.

  Hunter Hayes

  Song, Couple, Weekend

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• I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

  Tom Hiddleston

  War, Journey, Play

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• Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Toronto, Sometimes, Film

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• Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

  Steve Swallow

  Running, Play, Bass

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• I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

  Georgina Chapman

  Cannes Film Festival, Glamorous, Film

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• When I first saw The Black Kat Boppers I was sat on a hill at a festival and could hear this music in a tent that literally grabbed me by the lapels and dragged me in

  Paul Simonon

  Black, Tents, Saws

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• The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  America, Effort, Mind

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• Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Summer, Home, Holiday

  "Mind the beer, dear" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2006.

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• Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

  Liam Neeson

  Years, Film, Duty

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• I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Blue, Touching

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

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• Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.

  Taika Waititi

  Thinking, Suits, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• The Internet right now is another way to get exposure. You depend on that because they give you press, and if it's successful it gets into a lot of festivals.

  Philipp Wolter

  Successful, Giving, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

  Ellie Goulding

  Play, Long, Safe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Silly, Sound, Wow

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I just wanna perform, I wanna get back on the scene, I wanna do all the festivals and stuff like that. I don't necessarily want to do all the bullshit that comes with it, like tons and tons of interviews, unnecessary things and all that.

  Lady Sovereign

  Bullshit, Unnecessary Things, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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