Festivals Quotes · Page 6

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

— Narendra Modi

In terms of film festivals, Cannes is the greatest launch pad.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

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

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 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

Electronic music is the first genre to realize how to use the music for marketing something else, which is playing festivals and…

— Justin Kan

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But…

— Bong Joon-ho

I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a…

— Terry Gilliam

The bigger your songs get, the bigger the festivals you play at will be, until you make it to Ultra. It happened…

— Martin Garrix

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid…

— Julian Fellowes

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I…

— Wesley Snipes

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

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

— Jimmy Roy

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is…

— Eriq La Salle

The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no…

— Charles Hazlewood

I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the…

— Pete Seeger

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns…

— John Quincy Adams

The first time I came to the Comedy Festival some nutcase shot a bunch of people in Tasmania. I thought, 'Oh, that's…

— Rich Hall

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

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

— Siddharth Katragadda

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

The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

— Joseph Jarman

I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

— Lamorne Morris

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

— Tom Hooper

One of my favourite things about living in the U.K. is having that chance to go to festivals.

— Katherine Ryan

I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.

— Peter Hook

We usually go to metal and rock festivals, and Glastonbury is not like that.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people.

— Jenny O

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

— Caroline Polachek

Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count -- / Festival of the Souls.

— Matsuo Basho

Every year I'm doing different projects, concerts, touring, open-air festivals.

— Nina Hagen