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546 Concerts quotes by 439 unique authors
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I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something…
— Milton Babbitt
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I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist…
— Chris Isaak
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Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage…
— Jerome Richardson
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I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?
— Clive Barnes
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After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I…
— Arturo Toscanini
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We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more…
— James Young
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To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one…
— Witold Gombrowicz
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My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My…
— Nate Ruess
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America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships…
— Anton Seidl
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Groundhog Day is a lot like a rock concert but the people are better behaved and there's a groundhog involved,
— Tom Chapin
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I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and…
— Nikola Tesla
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Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories…
— Butch Walker
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Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's…
— Gustavo Dudamel
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At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.
— Eugene Ormandy
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Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of…
— Leonard Rose
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I Repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my Music, and more importantly, my Life has not…
— Keith Green
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Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should…
— Rick Doblin
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When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
— Norman Granz
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I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.
— Norman Granz
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I judge people based solely on the quality of bands on the black concert t-shirts they wear.
— Lou Brutus
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I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.
— Petra Nemcova
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Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.
— Evelyn Glennie
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Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.
— Alfred Brendel
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I was truly thrilled when Alex-Zsolt played for my tribute concert titled, 'A Tribute to Richard M. Sherman.' Â This special concert event was held…
— Richard Sherman
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I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and…
— Andrew Wyeth
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