Concerts Quotes · Page 11

I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

— Iggy Pop

Often times at a concert, I just close my eyes. Music is very transportive and visual for me like that.

— Gotye

I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.

— Rod McKuen

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

— Lady Gaga

Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.

— Evelyn Glennie

I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

— Fran Drescher

I've been to two concerts in the last 10 years.Bob Seger and the Eagles.

— Toby Keith

The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.

— Garrison Keillor

I go to movies and concerts and stuff - that's why I think all my money would be gone if I weren't…

— Nick Wechsler

You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us…

— Page McConnell

I always thought music was more important than sex—then I thought if I don't hear a concert for a year-and-a-half it doesn't…

— Jackie Mason

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

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever…

— Shaun Cassidy

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

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

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

— Chris Isaak

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock…

— Henry Rollins

What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians…

— Itay Talgam

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in…

— Amy Tan

Normal, day-to-day things inspire you to write. I try to travel and chill, and go out and enjoy the outdoors. That makes…

— Prince Royce

I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed…

— Tom Lehrer

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

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

I think I'm pretty laid back. I like cooking, being at home, and going to concerts. And I love to shop!

— Misty Copeland

I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.

— Frederic Chopin

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

— Shelley Berman

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.

— Freddie Mercury

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

— Wanda Jackson

I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.

— Kate Bush

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

— Emanuel Ax

I didn't start going to concerts until I moved to California.

— Miles Heizer

Britain has the IRA and no one cancels concerts there.

— Sharon Osbourne

At 9 years old, I did a lot of benefit concerts for my community.

— Tiffany Darwish

I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world...

— Frederic Chopin

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

— Abraham Lincoln

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

— Levon Helm

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

— David Byrne

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

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