Close Quote by Porter Robinson

You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for…

— David Byrne

I think festivals have a responsibility to show different genres of music to people.

— Sigrid

What makes a good festival, above all, is the audience. It feels disconnected when it's meant to bring in people from elsewhere and not…

— Baron Vaughn

I think for me to be involved in a festival, there has to be a strong element of songwriting and musicianship.

— Aaron Dessner

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to…

— Cass McCombs

Festivals are good to open the road for you, to bring in new faces and voices, but not to go back to once you've…

— Jose Jose

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

— Caroline Polachek

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

— George Wein

Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.

— Mikey Way

Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're playing a…

— Vince Staples

It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot…

— Kaskade

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