Festivals Quotes - Page 2

• Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

  Trent Reznor

  Spiritual, Crowds, Kind

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• Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Dangerous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.228, Modern Library

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• The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.

  Charles Hazlewood

  People, Perspective, Community

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• For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Stars, Sex

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.216

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• Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

  Michel Ocelot

  Film, Sincere, Difficulty

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

  William Shakespeare

  Rhyming, Born, Planets

  1598 Benedick. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.2, l.35-9.

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• The moon has become a dancer
  at this festival of LOVE.

  Rumi

  Moon, Dancer

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The PrIVILeged Lovers”

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• We had to do something at [a festival in Washington, D.C.]. I remember Chris Martin, by then we all knew him, there were certain people who were regulars. He would say, "Oh, my God, you guys, I think I'm going to throw up." It was a daytime festival, and they went on right after some really heavy band, and he was saying, "I don't think I can do this. I think I'm going to throw up." He was in the bathroom thinking he was going to be sick. He said, "They're going to hate us." In fact, they hated them. They hated Coldplay - did not go over well. His instincts were correct.

  Jancee Dunn

  Hate, Thinking, Sick

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love the outdoor festival feeling.

  Joshua Bell

  Feelings

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• Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

  Henry Rollins

  War, Years, Cities

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• All things that we ordained festival
  Turn from their office to black funeral--
  Our instruments to melancholy bells,
  Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast;
  Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
  Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse;
  And all things change them to the contrary.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Cheer, Flower

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.247

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• The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Unhappy, Want

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• Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Food, Perspective

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.78, University of Georgia Press

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• I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

  Rico Love

  Different, Type, Different Music

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• That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.

  Alice Cooper

  Jumping, People, Stage

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

  Walt Whitman

  Crowds, Arms, Months

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.19, NYU Press

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• Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights

  Adam Sandler

  Crazy, Night, Eight

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• Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

  Bill Monroe

  Years, People, Together

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• Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Literature, World, Facts

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.192, 谷月社

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• So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, Movie, Stupid

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• There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Revenge

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.48, Verso

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• In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.

  Neil Innes

  Moon, Journey, Thinking

  Interview with Richie Unterberger, www.furious.com. January 2001.

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• The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

  Keanu Reeves

  Art, Hymns, Humanity

  "'Matrix Reloaded' previews at Cannes". www.cnn.com. May 13, 2003.

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• We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.

  Thurston Moore

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• Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

  Bjork

  Football, Sorry, Eggs

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