Concerts Quotes · Page 10

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

— Norman Granz

Every year I'm doing different projects, concerts, touring, open-air festivals.

— Nina Hagen

Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

— Park Chan-wook

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

— Vanilla Ice

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.

— Anonymous

In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great.

— Thomas Goodwin

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

— Fran Drescher

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices:…

— Vladimir Horowitz

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror…

— Clara Schumann

Eating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an…

— Curtis Jackson

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like…

— Phylicia Rashad

People don't come to my concerts because they know the program. They come because they love the atmosphere and because they know…

— Andre Rieu

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many…

— Renee Fleming

I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics…

— Sondre Lerche

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy…

— Camille Paglia

My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25…

— Kevin Plank

But there is a world of difference between dancing and watching a dance performed by a group of professionals who are paid…

— Rajneesh

Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an…

— Robert Fripp

I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and…

— Billy Corgan

We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when…

— Barack Obama

My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to…

— Robert Glasper

This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not…

— Linda Ronstadt

Kids bring their mothers and grandmothers to our concerts. You don't see that with a lot of artists today.

— Kevin Olusola

Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well.

— George Benjamin

I'm sure there are little Aly and AJ fan babies out there that were made in our concerts. No, I'm kidding!

— AJ Michalka

In Europe we play big concerts, but in America it's so cool to see all the people - and all the girls.

— Bill Kaulitz

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

— Zubin Mehta

I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

— David Guetta

I used to spend my money on going to Tom Petty concerts.

— Chris Stapleton

Ultimately, musicians make their money in live concerts.

— John Popper

I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.

— Claire Tomalin

One of my first concerts ever was seeing Jethro Tull at Fiddler's Green, when I was twelve.

— Ivan Moody

If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.

— Jacques Monod

The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.

— James Young

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

— Eugene Ormandy

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

— David Guetta

I advise that pregnant women do not come to my concerts.

— Ozzy Osbourne