Concerts Quotes

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.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.

I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna.

The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

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. (189)

My band and music are so intense they scare me, and I'm not afraid of anything. We love our music with everything we got and deliver the most inebriating fun concerts on earth every night.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

I've been to two concerts in the last 10 years.Bob Seger and the Eagles.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

The live concert industry has become corporate-ized.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.

We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.

In my day-to-day, I do a bit of yoga, I go biking, I read, I watch shows, I go to music concerts.

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.

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

I go to movies and concerts and stuff - that's why I think all my money would be gone if I weren't working because I just keep spending it, on that, and CDs, and I don't know.

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

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.

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.

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

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

Every once in a while I'll find a new way of playing something, it will suggest itself. But generally speaking, there's a set sonic potential, and that's in concert with a set instrumental technique.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.

I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

I would love to do more private concerts.

The live concerts are everything and I’m very grateful that most of my career, I’m a live artist, I’ve been doing this. So I’ve traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing.

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

I'm obsessed with concerts.

My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.

People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

I don't actually go to that many concerts.

I work out, I play sports, I go to concerts.

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.

Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.

During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.