Festivals Quotes

• The people at festivals are much more open to dance and just sing along. They come right up to the stage and they're very thankful. That's one thing I really appreciate about the yoga culture, that the people are very thankful. They come up to you as much as any fan would, but they express sincere gratitude and I appreciate that.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Dance
  • Yoga
  • Gratitude

• I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

  

  Adele
  • Life
  • Audience
  • Festivals

• I have little art piece, a kind of short film thing I filmed with my friend. It's going to be 20 minutes, and we're going to submit it into festivals but also going to art galleries.

  

  Ellery Sprayberry
  • Art
  • Film
  • My Friend

• It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Festivals
  • Good Feeling

• When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Festivals
  • Fringe
  • Edinburgh

• Club nights are much more intimate, you feel the sound and energy much more than at festivals.

  

  Nora En Pure
  • Energy
  • Club
  • Festivals

• I haven't played EDC since 2011. Normally, my sound fits a little bit better in mixed festivals.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Sound
  • Littles
  • Festivals

• And unless something changes soon, it’s likely more festivals will be canceled. Those are lifeblood for most indie artists. Please consider spending some of the dollars you would have spent there on art and artists.

  

  John Paul White
  • Changes
  • Dollars
  • Spending

• The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Night
  • Reason
  • Crack

• Playing new songs at festivals is weird, obviously. People at festivals are always a bit drunk, and probably just want to hear stuff they know by bands they love, or are checking you out and don't know your stuff very well.

  

  Dan Smith
  • Weird
  • Songs
  • New

• Festivals are weird, you never know what to expect so it's a bit more nerve wracking then playing your own show.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Playing
  • Show
  • Expect

• All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Summer
  • Festivals
  • Leeds

• Beach balls at festivals are the work of the devil.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Work
  • Devil
  • Beach

• Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat. Mae frowned. "Is it no-shirts festival day?" "Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day," Alan said absently, but he was frowning too.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Sin
  • Shirts
  • Flats

• 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 embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

  

  Geoff Rickly
  • People
  • Proud
  • Musician

• I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't necessarily a small minority of the wealthy elite in the city of Lahore. It can often be and I often do meet at literary festivals students who've ridden a bus 12 hours from a very small town just to hear some of their favorite writers come and speak.

  

  Mohsin Hamid
  • People
  • Small
  • Fiction

• He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Gains

• At festivals there's always one spectator from Egypt who says, 'I like it, it moved me, reminds me of so many things.' I get a lot of reaction from the Arab world at fests. But the percentage of people from the Arab world who like it should be the same as anywhere else.

  

  Eran Kolirin
  • Egypt
  • Spectator
  • Arab

• My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

  

  Evan Sayet
  • Drawing
  • Cartoon
  • Festivals

• My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It's like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Fun
  • Favourite
  • Big Day Out

• Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler.

  

  Ethan Suplee
  • Picture
  • Drug
  • Festivals

• I always wanted to play festivals more than anything in Scotland.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Festivals

• That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • People
  • Stage
  • Festivals

• Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people.

  

  George Wein
  • Creating
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

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