Festivals Quotes - Page 9

• Obviously there is stuff that I wouldn't play in a club that I play at festivals, and vice-versa, but my sets are still dominated largely by my own music. I think that's what makes me stand out a bit. My music is also festival- and club-friendly, so it generally works out well.

  Avicii

  Thinking, Play, Work Out

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

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• No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, or feasts he looks out with the same nice self-composure.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Nice, Men, Self

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• My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Running, Kids, Games

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

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• I directed one of my shorts that did festivals around the world, and that was great. I've got a bit of a bug for that now. I just hope I keep challenging myself and keep doing stuff that interests me with people who I respect and who teach me stuff. If I can keep doing that in anything - acting, writing, directing or whatever - I'll do it because life is short.

  Josh Lawson

  Writing, Life Is Short, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The quality and success of Disney was actually bad for us animators because everyone on the planet thought that animation was only for kids and only in a certain domain. The big film festivals never thought much about animated films.

  Michel Ocelot

  Kids, Quality, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.

  Jason Reitman

  Years, Daddy, One Day

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• Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

  Lewis Thomas

  Inspirational, Dance, New York

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• The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Cannes Film Festival, Political, Different

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• I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

  Jane Seymour

  Garden, London, Way

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• Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

  Amy Sedaris

  Art, New Orleans, Trios

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• To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Prayer, Father, Blessing

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• Festivals are unique. They can be the best of times or the worst. You're not playing to the converted. But those are the best shows - to see if you can make new friends and entertain them.

  Andrew W.K.

  Unique, New Friends, Being The Best

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat. Mae frowned. "Is it no-shirts festival day?" "Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day," Alan said absently, but he was frowning too.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Frowning, Sin, Shirts

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• The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Drama, Imagination

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• In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.10, Library of America

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• Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Prayer, Book, Self

  "Democratised Holiness: What Yom Kippur Teaches Us About Moral Responsibility". www.abc.net.au. October 3, 2014.

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• Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films, and if they are good enough, they play. The only barrier to entry is the submission fee.

  Jason Reitman

  Art, Unique, Play

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• After that really, I spent the majority of the spring going to tons and tons of regional festivals throughout America. Every corner of the country, I took the movie to twenty film festivals or something to that extent. I've lost track. Probably done Q&As 40-50 times at this point. It's always hard to watch something I've made, but I've got a little more objectivity and kind of see the film as not just an extension of myself.

  James Ponsoldt

  Country, Spring, Objectivity

  Source: collider.com

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• It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

  Abbie Hoffman

  People, Trials, Parks

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• The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

  Ethan Hawke

  Art, Dying, Trying

  "Toolkit | Meet the Woodstock Film Festival Programmers (In Their Own Words)" by Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count -- / Festival of the Souls.

  Matsuo Basho

  Thinking, Soul, Think Of You

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• We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.

  Mark E. Smith

  Son, Numbers, Groups

  "The Fall's Mark E. Smith Attacks Mumford & Sons" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 20, 2010.

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• I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

  Lamorne Morris

  Love Is, Long, Music Festival

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• And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.

  Rick Derringer

  Drinking, Beer, Play

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• A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future

  Harvey Goldsmith

  Artist, Looks, Concerts

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