Concerts Quotes

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.

If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.

The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.