Festivals Quotes

• The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Hundred
  • Attendance

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

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Festivals
  • Good Feeling

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

  

  Gerard Butler
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Training

• 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

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

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Gains

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

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Work
  • Devil
  • Beach

• 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

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

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Festivals
  • Fringe
  • Edinburgh

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

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Sound
  • Littles
  • Festivals

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

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Festivals

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Evan Sayet
  • Drawing
  • Cartoon
  • 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

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

  

  Alice Cooper
  • People
  • Stage
  • Festivals

• 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

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