Festivals Quotes · Page 5

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

— George Wein

Often I go to book festivals and they just turn authors into celebrities.'

— Claire Fox

Festivals become a family because you start seeing the same people.

— Philipp Wolter

We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.

— Thurston Moore

He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.

— Scott Adams

I always wanted to play festivals more than anything in Scotland.

— Lewis Capaldi

I make documentaries. I attend film festivals. I don't have time to sit at cafes taking selfies.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

— William Shakespeare

I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having…

— Pete Seeger

I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema…

— Lav Diaz

I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was…

— Marcus Brigstocke

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

— Roger Ebert

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also…

— Donna Leon

Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super…

— Viggo Mortensen

I've been part of the EDC scene for a long time. It's one of the best festivals in the world and a…

— Hardwell

My father is a Japanese-American and my mother is a Caucasian. So obviously, New Year's Day is big for our family, you…

— Scott Fujita

“In truth, however, only four of the festivals celebrated by today’s followers of the seasonal wheel can definitely be attributed to the…

— Carole Carlton

I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with…

— Mindy Kaling

What I like about Japanese venues is that the front barrier is right up against the stage, so when you're bending over,…

— Keith Flint

Martin's Monsanto poem holds devastating power. I heard the first public reading at the Resurgence Festival of well-being in London. It brought…

— Tony Juniper

To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love -…

— Marie-Luise Gothein

I've worked with the company - James Dean Events - on several occasions and their festivals have always been really successful and…

— Chesney Hawkes

Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Out on the West Coast, I learned to snowboard in Whistler, and I've been to festivals in British Columbia, and played in…

— Bonobo

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice…

— Ani DiFranco

Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to…

— Pierre Hadot

I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to…

— Rhys Darby

Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring…

— Selena Fox

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

— Willem Dafoe

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.

— Bernard Fanning

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

— Nina Hagen

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

— Matsuo Basho

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

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

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

— Katherine Ryan

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

— Anna Akhmatova

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

— Brian Setzer