Concerts Quotes · Page 3

The live concert industry has become corporate-ized.

— Perry Farrell

I've only been to one concert in my life.

— Sarah Paulson

Here, whatever is not boring is not English.

— Frederic Chopin

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Most years, I do 70 or 80 concerts.

— Chris de Burgh

At concerts I felt demeaned, like a vaudevillian.

— Glenn Gould

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.

— Anonymous

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

— Bernie Worrell

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

— Thomas Beecham

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

— Gladys Knight

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

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

— Stendhal

I still like to play songs from my Silk Route days at concerts.

— Mohit Chauhan

I am always so excited to get to know a new audience. My concerts are very personal experiences.

— Audra McDonald

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

— Chris de Burgh

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

— Gian-Carlo Rota

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

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is…

— James Young

I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing…

— Usain Bolt

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

— Kirsten Nelson

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to…

— Joseph Jarman

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

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

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

— Amy Tan

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

— Itay Talgam

When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't…

— Steve Coogan

I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to…

— Erin Morgenstern

Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film…

— Brian Eno

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow…

— Jodi Picoult

In churches, we see that getting people to show up for a prayer meeting is a lot more difficult than a concert…

— Stephen Kendrick

Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their…

— Stephan Kinsella

I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues…

— Jack Jones

It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling,…

— Frederic Chopin

I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable…

— Milton Babbitt

Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of…

— Elizabeth Neel

I think that ties into our name and the meaning behind our name, going Against the Current. We don't really want to…

— Chrissy Costanza

The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the…

— Malcolm Bradbury