Audience Quote by Moa Kikuchi

We played a show the other week at this festival and it was an audience that I'd never normally play in front of. That's…

— Nadine Shah

But I really felt that, something about the lights going down, and the sense of community. I saw this movie at one festival, and…

— Paul Reiser

Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.

— Will Champion

I went from playing small gigs for 80 people to like 2,000 or 3,000 people, and they were arriving with all this expectation and excitement.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a…

— Mac DeMarco

People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always…

— Geoff Rickly

It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all…

— Robert Smith

We've been in front of really big audiences, and people have said there's a couple of hundred thousand people out there, but I've never…

— Angus Young

A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a…

— Todd McFarlane

Our crowds are very festival-type crowds.

— Steve Harwell

Well, 45,000 people at Coachella and 100,000 at Stagecoach... I never do get nervous.

— Mason Ramsey

You can have the best production, the best stage in the world, but without a crowd, the festival is nothing.

— Hardwell