Alive Quote by Rick Riordan

“It sounded like elevator music for the tormented souls on their way to hell”

— Beth Fantaskey

I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television…

— Al Jarreau

Together we made our way down to the street level. Neither of us said a word. The music was awful--Neil Diamond or something. I…

— Rick Riordan

James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see…

— Ted Nugent

My mom and pop took me to the Apollo Theater on my thirteenth birthday to see Heavy D and Keith Sweat. It was late…

— Jadakiss

I worked with a comic at the Apollo, and his jokes weren't so good. So people used to bring groceries to the Apollo, and…

— Leslie Uggams

It's cool that you hear something, but what did you feel and what was your tactile and kinesthetic response to it? Those songs and…

— Pharrell Williams

Seeing all of these beautiful brown faces and having that patience for them to live in whatever it was that they were living in;…

— KiKi Layne

I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

— Rick James

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

— Don McLean

If you remember back to some of the television we saw, Buzz and Neil on the Moon with Apollo 11. Black and white. They…

— Alan Bean

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb…

— Max Beckmann