Concerts Quote by Gayle Forman

You couldn't be performing if it weren't for the audience. I appreciate them being there. So why not applaud them? They took time out…

— Hilary Hahn

They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days…

— Frederic Chopin

I stopped my iTunes festival set because someone fainted at the front. It felt like the right thing to do at the time but…

— Rae Morris

People come to my concerts from all walks of life. I tried to break barriers down.

— Kirk Franklin

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

— Namie Amuro

Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.

— Emanuel Ax

The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I…

— Elvis Presley

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

— Henry Miller

These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me.…

— Jim Carroll

I ran off stage at my first gig. Halfway through it, I forgot my lines and didn't know what to do, so I just…

— Julian Barratt

I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.

— Jack Nicholson

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb…

— Frederic Chopin