Crowds Quotes

• Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

  

  Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
  • Band
  • Difficult
  • Crowds

• This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of silly decorations. Behind the boys And the old men, Life weeps, And shreds her garments To the blowing winds.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Power
  • Dirt
  • Inclination

• Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Body
  • Responsible

• Sometimes, when you are in the public eye, you just really need to just be part of the crowd, and look at other people rather than other people look at you.

  

  Suzanne Somers
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Eye

• Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Crowds
  • Clergy
  • Hierarchical

• I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Alone

• In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Solitude
  • Crowds

• It's good. We've struggled all year here, especially scoring runs and getting anything going. We had some pretty good, enthusiastic crowds the last two days, and it was good to put on a good show for them.

  

  Bob Melvin
  • Good
  • Runs
  • Enthusiastic

• I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Play
  • Luxury

• No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Suffer
  • Attacks
  • Defends

• When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.

  

  J. Brent Bill
  • Love
  • Heard
  • Noisy

• I think doing shows with other R&B artists like myself brings the attention to the crowd. You can't just do those one artist shows anymore. I don't like just me being on the show.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Artist

• Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Country
  • Rooms
  • Imbeciles

• You always get nervous on stage because when you get up there, you want to do great. The crowd has you pumped up so there are always a little bit of butterflies. That's all part of it. But as far as getting stage fright, clamming up there, not generally, I just enjoy it on stage and have a great time.

  

  Easton Corbin
  • Enjoy
  • Stage
  • Nervous

• I listen to the crowds... I like Blind Melon very much.

  

  Robert Plant Band of Joy
  • Laughing
  • Blind
  • Melons

• Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Church
  • Humans

• Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.

  

  William Cowper
  • World
  • Feels
  • Babel

• A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • New York
  • Rains
  • Doorways

• I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Love
  • Play
  • Crowds

• I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Culture
  • Humans

• I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Scene
  • London
  • Clubs

• Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Giving
  • Wish
  • Balls

• Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

  

  Will Self
  • Sometimes
  • Madness
  • Absence

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