Concerts Quotes · Page 2

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

— Sarah Brightman

I would love to do more private concerts.

— Renee Fleming

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

— Arthur Rubinstein

“I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Nobody's going to get a hot dog at my concert!

— David Lee Roth

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

— Miley Cyrus

I never really went to any concerts that I wasn't in.

— Slick Rick

I grew up on video shoots, in the studio, backstage at concerts.

— Latto

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.

— Petra Nemcova

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

— Dave Grohl

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

— Conrad Aiken

I judge people based solely on the quality of bands on the black concert t-shirts they wear.

— Lou Brutus

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

— Abraham Lincoln

As long as I can write songs, make a record and do concerts, I'm really quite happy.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

— Glenn Gould

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved…

— Bono

Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made…

— David Knopfler

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents,…

— Samuel Johnson

In my concerts, I'm always doing new songs, so someone seeing me for the first time or many times before will be…

— Engelbert Humperdinck

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the…

— Anna Sui

I'd rather have people who are enthusiastic about what I'm doing than like, "Well, I thought we were going to a Miley…

— Miley Cyrus

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all…

— Clive Barnes

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned…

— Marlo Thomas

[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience…

— Anton Webern

Some artists just go and play, and I have no objections to that - but I don't like to do that. People…

— Hiromi

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer…

— Bob Dylan

Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of…

— Goh Chok Tong

So what's happening with the audio/visuality, for the first time we are doing the music - the people who would come to…

— Frank Sinatra, Jr

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that…

— David Hyde Pierce

If I can get that DAM trio back together again - "get the band back together" - and put on a concert…

— Carlos Alomar

The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and…

— James Madison

Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their…

— Stephan Kinsella

I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You…

— Helen Merrill

We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places…

— John Lennon

What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where…

— Gerard Way

I love these dudes, but I don't know what they're doing with all that facial hair these days. There's a lot of…

— Pete Wentz

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts,…

— Ethel Smyth

What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen…

— Julio Cortazar