Quotes About Music Festivals

#1. You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

Hamilton Leithauser

#2. I think people probably lie about not reading their own reviews. I don't think that's true - I've been to a lot of music festivals and hung out backstage, especially in the past couple of years, and I see all these bands reading about themselves in newspapers. So I don't think that's true.

Lily Allen

#3. I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.

Beyonce Knowles

#4. I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

Lamorne Morris

#5. The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Gavin Bryars

#6. Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.

Ray Wylie Hubbard

#7. The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

Rita Rudner

#8. I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

Dexter Holland

#9. Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

John Ruskin

#10. When I first saw The Black Kat Boppers I was sat on a hill at a festival and could hear this music in a tent that literally grabbed me by the lapels and dragged me in

Paul Simonon

#11. I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"

Dee Dee Ramone

#12. When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator ... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.

Alexander Skarsgard

#13. I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

Vanessa Morgan

#14. I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools. There was always music being played either on record, Jazz and Folk, by musician friends of my mother. I took to singing very early, I believe it has been a Gift I was born with.

Vicki Sue Robinson

#15. Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

Johnny Rich

#16. Whatever we are afraid of will likely happen to us

Sunday Adelaja

#17. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

Allan Bloom

#18. I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

George Wein

#19. People are going to be seeing me a lot everywhere: TVs, music, movies, festivals. You name it, I'm gonna be there.

AraabMuzik

#20. When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

Jenny Lewis

#21. Jazz has a strong following in certain circles and there are annual jazz festivals in Puerto Plata and at Casa de Teatro in the capital. Grammy-winning Dominican jazz pianist Michael Camilo has had success on a global level. The classical music and ballet

Ginnie Bedggood

#22. The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.

Gerard Butler

#23. Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

Caroline Polachek

#24. I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

Rico Love

#25. What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?"
"Over my dead body."
"Could be, Tim, could be.

Gini Koch

#26. Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Sigmund Freud

#27. When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.

Moby

#28. Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It's a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.

Questlove

#29. Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Salman Rushdie

#30. But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

Yo-Yo Ma

#31. Obviously there is stuff that I wouldn't play in a club that I play at festivals, and vice-versa, but my sets are still dominated largely by my own music. I think that's what makes me stand out a bit. My music is also festival- and club-friendly, so it generally works out well.

Avicii

#32. Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

Bill Monroe

#33. I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.

Donna Leon

#34. A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some things are more performance art or light shows or dance parties, and then you'll have a singer-songwriter stuck in the middle to make the changeovers easier.

Jenny O.

#35. In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.

Jim Stovall

#36. Splashing about in mud in the cold is not my thing. I made an attempt to go to the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1969 when Bob Dylan was playing, but we never made it. We hired a boat from Lymington, but got lost, and by the time we got there the music was over. I wasn't too sad, to be honest.

Tony Blackburn

#37. All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards

Paul Feyerabend

#38. American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.

Rokia Traore

#39. I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.

Meghan Trainor

#40. One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

Henry Rollins