Concerts Quotes · Page 4

Young people go to concerts.

— John Oates

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

— Jakob Bohme

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

— Bernie Worrell

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

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Here, whatever is not boring is not English.

— Frederic Chopin

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

— Sarah Paulson

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

— Anonymous

At concerts I felt demeaned, like a vaudevillian.

— Glenn Gould

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

— Kitty Carlisle

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

— Conrad Aiken

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

— Abraham Lincoln

I judge people based solely on the quality of bands on the black concert t-shirts they wear.

— Lou Brutus

As long as I can write songs, make a record and do concerts, I'm really quite happy.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

— Dar Williams

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

— Glenn Gould

I once nodded off during one of my own concerts. While I was playing.

— Stephen Hough

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at…

— Ice T

The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

— Stephen Sondheim

We put out a live thing, it seemed more like a bootleg though but, it would be nice to see like a…

— Jess Margera

I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have…

— Namie Amuro

If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting…

— David LaChapelle

The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully…

— Nobuo Uematsu

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which…

— Lara St. John

There's a tendency to make more money at concerts. That's from a financial standpoint. Night clubs have a better feel, better contact…

— Al Green

When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.…

— Madonna Ciccone

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz…

— Wynton Marsalis

Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few…

— Patricia Barber

Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you…

— Aaron Zigman

People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline...…

— Frank Partnoy

Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of…

— Laurie Anderson

[ James Comey] was acting in concert and coordination with the House Republicans. End of story. He gave a letter to them.…

— James Carville

... you never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you…

— Jimmy Page

I love these dudes, but I don't know what they're doing with all that facial hair these days. There's a lot of…

— Pete Wentz

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the…

— Rachel Cohn

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

A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played…

— Frederic Chopin

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

Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an…

— Hannah Arendt

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