Quotes About Concerts

#1. My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

Prefuse 73

#2. I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.

Gordon Lightfoot

#3. Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl' ... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs at age 13], and work to get all the laughs I could get.

Sophie Tucker

#4. My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.

Jana Kramer

#5. I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

Harlan Coben

#6. I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn't easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.

Adam Ant

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

Mose Allison

#8. I think I'm pretty laid back. I like cooking, being at home, and going to concerts. And I love to shop!

Misty Copeland

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

Lorna Luft

#10. Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about style and language from reading good literature than you will ever acquire from workshops and how-to books.

Judith Barrington

#11. The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all the other great artists and their bands and this should make for one historic round of concerts.

Johnny Winter

#12. 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.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#13. I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money ... but I first got it for free.

Michael Moore

#14. I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.

John McCormack

#15. I regularly go to concerts with my children sharing the music.

Peter Hook

#16. I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.

Claire Tomalin

#17. At concerts it makes me happy to see my Beliebers talking to each other because i made them family.

Justin Bieber

#18. I'm experiencing the mood to go out and share the music. I don't look at these concerts as a platform for people to watch me, look at me. No, a tour is about an interaction. A thing, myself, a band, and the people who support what I do and enjoy what I do.

Lenny Kravitz

#19. 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.

Anna Sui

#20. I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.

Paul McCartney

#21. When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.

Neil Tennant

#22. 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.

Vince Gill

#23. I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me ... Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money ... Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

Tupac Shakur

#24. You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

David Byrne

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

Ken Kesey

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

Bill Walton

#27. I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else ... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.

Agnetha Faltskog

#28. If I could peer into a crystal ball, I imagine I would see an ever-growing list of canceled tours, concerts, and appearances in her future, for fear of leaving her husband home alone.

Brandi Glanville

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

Donna Summer

#30. We've done several concerts to promote literacy.. anywhere from children in Africa to children in St. George. It's definitely something that we have always been supportive of.

Justin Smith

#31. I love seeing young girls and their parents and grandparents at my concerts all loving the music from Grease when I perform those songs (and yes, I do perform a bunch of them!).

Olivia Newton-John

#32. People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline ... can be traced, at least in part, to unconscious stimuli that make us live faster.

Frank Partnoy

#33. The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

Jill Scott

#34. 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

#35. The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much
music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

Perrey Reeves

#36. The Weezer 'Blue' Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket's 'Circuital' is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin album. Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' or 'Animals.' I always catch myself at concerts being like, 'Oh, I just stared at the drummer for 15 straight minutes.' I study them.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#37. I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs.

T. J. Miller

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

Norman Granz

#39. I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early.

Kelli O'Hara

#40. I like to go to concerts because I love to see my favorite band through the phone of the asshole who's standing in front of me.

Demetri Martin

#41. 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.

Nick Wechsler

#42. I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.

Alexander McCall Smith

#43. 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.

Nancy Sinatra

#44. Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void ... it is unthinkable.

Zubin Mehta

#45. The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!

Anna Netrebko

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

Lizzie Brochere

#47. Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts

Thom Yorke

#48. Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

Derek Bailey

#49. Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz fan. Even more than concerts, a lot of my high school time was spent going to jazz clubs in the city.

Nick Kroll

#50. I can't say that electronic gear is restrictive. I think it is a challenge to play with electronic gear, and I regularly [perform] concerts with guys who are processing sound.

Volker Bertelmann

#51. Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

Arthur Helps

#52. The strings all soar,
The reeds implore,
The brasses roar with notes galore.
It's music that we all adore
It's what we go to concerts for.

Lloyd Moss

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

Psy

#54. I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, 'This is really great.'

Teddy Thompson

#55. As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.

Kim Kardashian

#56. We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.

Damian Marley

#57. 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.

Renee Fleming

#58. 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.

Norman Granz

#59. My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

Enrique Iglesias

#60. I have normal friends. I sit at my house, and they practically live with me, and I watch them get ready to go to a high school party, hang out with their friends, go to concerts.

Kylie Jenner

#61. A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any other genre. One of the first concerts I went to was a Donnington Monsters Of Rock concert.

Jamie Cullum

#62. I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.

Dave Grohl

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

Gerry Mulligan

#64. Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

Zubin Mehta

#65. I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Gary Cole

#66. Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

Peter Tork

#67. 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.

Rupert Holmes

#68. Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

Paul Kantner

#69. In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

James Weldon Johnson

#70. My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.

Wynton Marsalis

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

Van Morrison

#72. When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

Kathleen Battle

#73. 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.

Branford Marsalis

#74. When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.

Victoria Justice

#75. I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

Vanilla Ice

#76. The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

John Naisbitt

#77. We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively. We thought that's kind of strange, because music is full of life! We thought we could break through that barrier with theater and comedy elements.

Aleksey Igudesman

#78. 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.

Skitch Henderson

#79. What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?

Itay Talgam

#80. 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

#81. Every year I'm doing different projects, concerts, touring, open-air festivals.

Nina Hagen

#82. When I do my solo concerts, I'm used to being on the stage for two hours solid, singing 16 songs. And when I did 'Funny Thing,' I was on the stage the whole time. This is much more difficult. It's the difference between racing and sprinting. This is sprinting. And I have to learn to pace myself.

Micky Dolenz

#83. The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.

B.B. King

#84. I'm obsessed with concerts.

Aaron Paul

#85. A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future

Harvey Goldsmith

#86. Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

Kelli O'Hara

#87. I can remember dancing around living room with my two sisters to the music of Paganini and Mozart. I can still remember my dad combing the newspaper, circling all the free concerts in town, and on the weekends, we would go as a family.

Lindsey Stirling

#88. In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I can hold a tune. The dream is a West End musical one day - no, really!

Miranda Hart

#89. I love Linkin Park; that's one of my favorite groups, that I went to all their concerts. I love those guys, man. They do, like, pop-rock, know what I'm saying?

Juicy J

#90. You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life.

David Cassidy

#91. A hundred years ago, concerts were far more come-what-may - people played cards, drank beer and appreciated the music. If we go some way towards restoring that spirit, I'll be happy.

Charles Hazlewood

#92. My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

Jack Antonoff

#93. 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.

Pablo Casals

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

Fiona Apple

#95. 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

#96. As if I'd said I wanted to sell cheese sandwiches outside Grateful
Dead concerts ...

J.R. Moehringer

#97. Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.

Kurt Masur

#98. 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.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#99. If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

David Gilmour

#100. I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.

Elizabeth Taylor