Concerts Quotes · Page 27

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

— Robert Plant

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

— David Byrne

I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no,…

— Richie Havens

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

— David Byrne

New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good,…

— Barbara Cook

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

— Alfred Brendel

I love lyrics. I've always been averse to the straight lyric idea. I guess a big part of it is, that songs…

— Ian Svenonius

I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert.…

— Dierks Bentley

Usually people like experimental music which is usually not the case in Carnatic classical concerts.

— M. Jayachandran

Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're…

— Vince Staples

I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna.

— PSY

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I…

— Kirsten Nelson

I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.

— Norman Granz

In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle,…

— Jeffrey Tate

I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts…

— Cheyenne Jackson

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It…

— Peter Tork

Just hold on. Just for a minute." "Are you all right ?" I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some…

— Jojo Moyes

You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of…

— Patrick Swayze

I've never been drawn to concert DVDs because they take away the part of the equation that's most important to seeing a…

— Feist

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

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper…

— Harlan Coben

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.

— Thomas Beecham

I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.

— Leonard Slatkin

In concert, I often try to feel the audience and feel their way of hearing. If I feel that there is no…

— Michala Petri