Festivals Quotes - Page 14

• I'd rather just help people with my creative energy. I want to remind them that they're cosmic light inside physical forms and they're an incredibly special part of god's wild mind of love, but I'd love to do that in the form of playing at venues or showing a film at festivals.

  Giuseppe Andrews

  Light, People, Creative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

  Bela Fleck

  Hip Hop, Together, Jam

  Source: therumpus.net

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• At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big bangers but it's to me it's extra gratifying to be able to play the non-bangers and make it work. Because that's still the craft of the DJ, I think.

  A-Trak

  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: www.gq.com

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• A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some things are more performance art or light shows or dance parties, and then you'll have a singer-songwriter stuck in the middle to make the changeovers easier.

  Jenny O.

  Art, Rock And Roll, Light

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people.

  Jenny O.

  Song, People, Intention

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm.

  Richie Havens

  Crazy, Hippie, Rain

  "Richie Havens in his own words" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

  Roger Ebert

  Cannes Film Festival, Satanic, Peter

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.145, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Vincent Gallo has put a curse on my colon and a hex on my prostate. He called me a 'fat pig' in the New York Post and told the New York Observer I have 'the physique of a slave-trader.' He is angry at me because I said his 'The Brown Bunny' was the worst movie in the history of the Cannes Film Festival...
  it is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and he will still be the director of 'The Brown Bunny.'

  Roger Ebert

  New York, Pigs, Cannes Film Festival

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• Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Cynical, Democracy, Mediocrity

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• We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is what moves the stars through the heavens and the earth through its seasons. The final norm of judgment concerning the success or failure of our technologies is the extent to which they enable us to participate more fully in this grand festival.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Stars, Moving

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• The Christian Sunday should be a festival, gathering up all the life of the week and offering it to God in worship and then spending the day in a way which most truly promotes joy and happiness and refreshment for oneself and for other people.

  Olive Wyon

  Happiness, Christian, Sunday

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• Festivals are always fun. I went to a lot when I was younger and had money to go to them. I like playing at festivals. They're always kind of like a big, crazy circus.

  Courtney Barnett

  Fun, Crazy, Circus

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Play, Coachella, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this white, sudden white shape, that just zapped from me and went straight to the light that was at the back of the room, and I just stopped cold and said to the audience, "Did you guys see that?" No one saw it.

  Rhys Darby

  White, Light, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

  Rhys Darby

  Edinburgh, Fringe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have about four different endeavors I'm going after right now. They all excite me in different ways. I'm all about keeping as many irons in the fire as possible. I'm writing music, trying to write a book (aren't we all?), putting a festival together, speaking... It keeps life interesting.

  Kevin Griffin

  Book, Writing, Iron

  "Interview with Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Making money is awesome and fun as hell, but they're saying, "Well, you're offered a whole lot of money to do this," and it's like, well, I do want the money, but I don't really do that - like headline a big festival or something like that. I could go there and do that, but it isn't really what I do. It feels weird to me.

  Will Oldham

  Fun, Want, Making Money

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.

  David Pajo

  Fashion, Song, Practice

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

  Karen Allen

  Independent, Years, Watches

  "Karen Allen on The Sandlot, liking the fourth Indiana Jones, and being typecast". Interview with Pete Croatto, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2016.

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• If you're into comedy, you will know what the show is about. We have so many comedy geeks, comedy enthusiasts, fanatical people who go to comedy festivals and follow comedians, and really treat it like rock 'n' roll - which it can be, but more like the geeky rock 'n' roll.

  Rhys Darby

  Rocks, People, Comedian

  "Flight Of The Conchords' Rhys Darby". Interview with Sam Adams, tv.avclub.com. January 16, 2009.

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• You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Vacation, Sound, Half

  "Listen: New Walkmen: 'Heaven'". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2012.

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• Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

  Caroline Polachek

  Writing, Crowds, Mindset

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't necessarily a small minority of the wealthy elite in the city of Lahore. It can often be and I often do meet at literary festivals students who've ridden a bus 12 hours from a very small town just to hear some of their favorite writers come and speak.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Cities, Often Is, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad for people and bad for society, but the whole notion of festival is tied up with intoxication.

  Irvine Welsh

  People, Drug, Way

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• I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema is universal. You create it, some people will notice it, some people will watch it.

  Lav Diaz

  Museums, People, Academia

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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