Concerts Quotes
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I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.
Chuck Klosterman -
I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one.
Tommy Davidson
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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
Seneca the Younger -
Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
Bill Gates -
I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.
Miroslav Vitous -
I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.
Frederic Chopin -
I never really went to any concerts that I wasn't in.
Slick Rick -
You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.
Shaun Cassidy
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Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.
Roma Downey -
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
Esa-Pekka Salonen -
If I can get that DAM trio back together again - "get the band back together" - and put on a concert of David Bowie's electronic music, that's the way I want to remember David, moving forward into the future of music.
Carlos Alomar -
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
Gerry Mulligan -
It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.
Howie Mandel -
I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.
Michel Legrand
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When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
Norman Granz -
Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could.
Sherman Alexie -
We've been doing something every year. We had a rock concert a few years ago to benefit the Garden of Dreams. And then we had the mask event.
Henrik Lundqvist -
I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure.
Thomas Eakins -
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
Stephen Sondheim -
The impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality
Anton Webern
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You are at home when you're at a Black Veil Brides concert.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides -
I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.
Geoff Zanelli -
Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.
Evelyn Glennie -
I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it in the world.
Evgeny Kissin