Concerts Quotes · Page 5

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

My fans go right across the board. They come to my concerts in family groups.

— Shakin' Stevens

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score

— Frederick The Great

I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.

— Jonathan Groff

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

— Archibald MacLeish

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

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world…

— Anonymous

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand…

— Chris Isaak

In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is…

— Theodore E. Steinway

It's wonderful doing concerts in places like New York and London, but I feel a responsibility to also bring my work home,…

— Charles Hazlewood

Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous…

— Frederic Chopin

Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but…

— Bruce Johnston

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

Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit…

— Raymond Scott

I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was…

— R. Carlos Nakai

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

— Jojo Moyes

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even…

— Woodrow Wilson

I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald,…

— Count Basie

I was a teenager doing teenager things, and now I have the honor of being on tour with musical giants Enrique Iglesias…

— Prince Royce

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

When my band MU landed on Maui in 1973 we were greeted by a wonderful group of peace loving brothers & sisters…

— Merrell Fankhauser

Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev…

— Robert Davi

It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type…

— Jeff Tweedy

On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,'…

— Niccolo Paganini

It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Every purchasing decision involves a trade-off between what I call fidelity and convenience. Fidelity is the total experience of something - how…

— Kevin Maney

I don't want to slow down. It's my life. I love being on the road and giving concerts.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

What I love about doing my concerts is always feeding off the fans and their energy.

— Ace Hood

I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.

— Eden Sher

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

— Nina Simone

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

— Enrique Iglesias

Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous.

— Billy Squier

When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.

— Gladys Knight

Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi