Festivals Quotes

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

— Rumi

Yeah, I love festivals, man.

— Dizzee Rascal

Sometimes success is just limited to festival circuit.

— John Legend

Spring and summer in Pittsburgh mean outdoor festivals.

— Bill Dedman

Film festivals is a great way to display good cinema.

— Ravi Kishan

I love the outdoor festival feeling.

— Joshua Bell

Life is a festival only to the wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

— Helen Keller

Download was one of the best festivals I've ever been to.

— Arnel Pineda

I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary.

— Elton John

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

— Adele

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

— Melanie Lynskey

My father used to celebrate all festivals like Eid, Diwali, Holi, Christmas, etc. with great gusto.

— Shabana Azmi

I haven't played EDC since 2011. Normally, my sound fits a little bit better in mixed festivals.

— Skrillex

I can go to festivals and open spaces, but if I'm in a crammed room with a bunch of people - oh…

— Brendon Urie

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

— Thurston Moore

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so…

— Joseph Jarman

Festivals are good to open the road for you, to bring in new faces and voices, but not to go back to…

— Jose Jose

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.

— Haile Gerima

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to…

— Elliot Perlman

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the…

— Lesley Garrett

I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I…

— Stephanie Szostak

I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music…

— Daniel Lanois

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

— Julian Fellowes

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is…

— Eriq La Salle

The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no…

— Charles Hazlewood

We have a small, tight family. I left home at a young age and the best thing for me was to go…

— Jimmy Roy

I have about four different endeavors I'm going after right now. They all excite me in different ways. I'm all about keeping…

— Kevin Griffin

What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in…

— Peter Bradshaw

In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the…

— Bruce Dickinson

It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has…

— Kaskade

The first time I came to the Comedy Festival some nutcase shot a bunch of people in Tasmania. I thought, 'Oh, that's…

— Rich Hall

On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off…

— Vanessa Redgrave

The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be…

— John Adams

I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

Not only weight loss surgery is unnecessary but also it deprives human being a normal life. People after surgery would never be…

— Subodh Gupta

History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her…

— George Wein

The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place…

— Dolores LaChapelle

When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute,…

— Charles Spurgeon

Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions…

— Laura Riding