Festivals Quotes · Page 5

I go to music festivals, and people want to talk to me about racism. I'm like, 'Bro, I'm trying to have fun!'

— Daniel Kaluuya

I'm extremely grateful that a lot of my films are presented at festivals.

— Stacy Martin

I have seen many festival films and I will be blunt, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' was ready for festivals.

— Shoojit Sircar

Film festivals give less of a platform to mainstream films because they already have a market.

— Vetrimaaran

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

— Mustard

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

— Bjork

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

— Evan Sayet

I don't like going to movie theaters or festivals. I even get freaked out at other people's shows.

— Dominic Fike

I love the smaller clubs. I love the theaters. I love the festivals. There are things I don't like. At certain theaters,…

— Sharon Jones

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.

— Colin Firth

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

— Abbie Hoffman

My kids that are grown up, in their 20s, they all go to festivals. They have to behave, though. When it comes…

— Shaun Ryder

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of…

— Maria Karnilova

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and…

— Rachel Weisz

I don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win…

— Woody Allen

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who…

— Sara Sheridan

Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more…

— Richie Havens

I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played…

— Labrinth

I have about four different endeavors I'm going after right now. They all excite me in different ways. I'm all about keeping…

— Kevin Griffin

What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in…

— Peter Bradshaw

The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be…

— John Adams

We have a small, tight family. I left home at a young age and the best thing for me was to go…

— Jimmy Roy

Stay well away from the enemies of Allâh during their festivals.

— Umar

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

— Narendra Modi

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the…

— Miles Davis

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

— Trent Reznor

Reporting on great bands at the festivals throughout the summer is probably my favourite part of the year.

— Edith Bowman

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

— Ralph Borsodi

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

— Robert Englund

Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life;

— Agnivesh

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

— Abel Ferrara

I started realizing that when I played festivals I didn't want to be writing all these down, sad songs.

— Dean Lewis

I have done big festivals all over Europe with hip hops acts and everything else.

— Shakin' Stevens

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

— Wasif Ali Wasif

There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.

— Tiesto

I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.

— Sheryl Lee

I used to hold Stanley Kubrick film festivals at my house in high school. These are not cool things.

— Sam Esmail

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

— Rico Love