Concerts Quotes · Page 4

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

— Martin Short

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

— Lorna Luft

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

— Frank Langella

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

— Mose Allison

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

— Sara Gilbert

I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

— Matt Berninger

In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything…

— George Santayana

People come to my concerts from all walks of life. I tried to break barriers down.

— Kirk Franklin

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get…

— Walt Disney

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought…

— Shalom Harlow

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again,…

— Amy Lee

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress…

— Olivia Wilde

With streaming concerts, we can all be together at the same time: the whole world, all at once, can be sitting front…

— Arnel Pineda

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances,…

— Frederic Chopin

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically,…

— Roscoe Mitchell

Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential,…

— James Madison

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day.…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing…

— Doug E. Fresh

I worked with Snoop, but I would love to work with him again, but DMX I would love to work with him…

— Bow Wow

I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really…

— Blythe Danner

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

— Michala Petri

My first Hip Hop concert was at the Apollo at the age of 12. Southpaw's father was interviewing Queen Latifah and Treach…

— Immortal Technique

Wait." "Stop?" I bit my lip and nodded. "Stop everything, or just go no further?" "Just...just no further." "Done." He gathered me…

— Tammara Webber

There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back…

— Hermann Hesse

When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand.…

— Robert Greenberg

On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And…

— William J. Clinton

It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he…

— Antoine-Henri Jomini

I can't have discussions about it anymore, I just can't. When someone asks me if I've found Jesus, I say, 'Yeah, I…

— Tori Amos

You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of…

— K-Maro

Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy…

— Kinky Friedman

I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows…

— Anonymous

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

— Bill Gates

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

— David Cassidy

I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.

— Mike Bass

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Before I ever did a stage concert, I'd done hundreds of living-room concerts, which helped a lot.

— Chris de Burgh

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

— Rachel Vincent

Believe it or not, at concerts some records go off more than 'Crew' does.

— Goldlink

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

— Robert Plant