Concerts Quotes · Page 6

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

— George Cole

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

— Alfred Brendel

I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.

— Norman Granz

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

— Nina Simone

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

— Mohit Chauhan

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

— Stendhal

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

“Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily…

— Matt Haig

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Chris Isaak

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

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

I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my…

— Paul McCartney

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

I've heard from other artists that people are a little bit more reserved in Northern Europe, which comes across at concerts, where…

— Agnes Obel

I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me…Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money…Like Makaveli, every…

— Tupac Shakur

Taking a man's money without his consent, is also as much robbery, when it is done by millions of men, acting in…

— Lysander Spooner

The first thing is to accept that theater is an unknown. If you go to a concert, you know the music. If…

— Cate Blanchett

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I…

— Anonymous

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“CONCERTS IN TOWN “Summergarden: New Music for New York” The Museum of Modern Art turns to music every summer, hosting a variety…

— Anonymous

I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and…

— Philip Glass

Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are…

— Paul Stanley

The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity...…

— Hermann Minkowski

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a…

— Brennan Manning

I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written…

— Ben Stiller

“Raw, alive and honest to the point of disgusting it's listener, Placebo set out to inspire mystery and confusion. Admitting to relishing…

— Chloe Govan

Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.

— Victoria Justice

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

— Gladys Knight

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

— Thomas Beecham

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

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

— Eden Sher

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