Concert Quotes

• Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.

  

  Aaron Zigman
  • Writing
  • Film
  • Concert

• You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Never
  • Happen
  • Concert

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

  

  Will Champion Coldplay
  • People
  • Cool
  • Played

• One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Fun
  • Stop
  • Concert

• In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.

  

  Geoff Zanelli
  • Believes
  • Recording
  • Trumpets

• It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Think
  • Eye
  • Hurricane

• I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Concert
  • B.B. King

• People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Songs
  • Respond
  • Concert

• I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

  

  John Prine
  • Time
  • Clubs
  • Halls

• I'm at my 3 year-olds year-end concert. It's full of very off-key, mostly unfocused children, but this father is still beaming. Must be how God feels on Sunday.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Children
  • Sunday
  • Concert

• At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Being
  • Crowd
  • Concert

• I don’t show my body for a good cause... if one day in a concert I pull down my pants, I would leave without job to those reporters who say I’m a woman.

  

  Bill Kaulitz
  • Job
  • Cause
  • Pants

• My first concert was pretty memorable - Deep Purple at 14. I had a really good childhood, I got along with my parents. I never rebelled. Pretty much all of it was cool. I wouldn't change any of it.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Parents
  • Change
  • Childhood

• At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Insecurity
  • Concert
  • Tempo

• I was at a Dolly Parton concert when I was about 9 years old. I saw her at the Ohio State Fair, and it was my first real concert that I'd been to. I saw that crowd and how they reacted and how great of a performer she was and the band. Just the energy of the whole thing collectively really captured me.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Energy
  • Band
  • First

• It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.

  

  Paul Horn
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Concert

• I wouldn't say I was sexy! But I guess that's fine if that's what they say. I like that in concert. That's neat.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Sexy
  • Concert

• Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • New York
  • Congratulations
  • Vice versa

• In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant succeeding at what it set out to do?

  

  Hank Stuever
  • Critics
  • Principle
  • TV Show

• I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Daughter
  • Shoot
  • Concert

• I've only been to one concert in my life.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Life
  • Concert

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