Quotes About Venues

#1. I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.

Dave Eggers

#2. I've asked to go back into theaters and smaller venues because to me, in smaller venues I can really demonstrate my commitment to quality. Theaters are great containers for music.

Jason Mraz

#3. The World Series is something that rarely gets to a number of venues in professional baseball. And that's one problem because we want the fan base of particular cities to participate in the World Series, even though there may be a lull in the particular performance of the regional team.

Scott Boras

#4. In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?

Zubin Mehta

#5. You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

Sondre Lerche

#6. I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the moment. It's a similar inspiration for me in terms of songwriting.

James Bay

#7. The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.

Isaac Marion

#8. When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#9. I sent a lot of the e-mails out to venues and tried to get shows and tried to get people interested in it. It can be a tough thing, because you know these people at venues are getting e-mails like that every day, but I think just my experience in working in running a radio station.

Chris Baio

#10. Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.

Mary Lambert

#11. The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux.

Tim Allen

#12. My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

Les Claypool

#13. I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

Doc Severinsen

#14. Leadership is a skill learned through many venues.

Todd Stocker

#15. I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

Maria Bartiromo

#16. I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me.

John Hodgman

#17. Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear ...

Susan Tedeschi

#18. Some venues are more intimidating than others, but as professional players you enjoy the intimidating places more than the other kind.

Ben Morgan

#19. The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

Roy Ayers

#20. 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

#21. I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.

Tim Vine

#22. I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.

Gary Allan

#23. I think, in a lot of ways, it's easier to play a smaller room. You can exploit the quieter dynamics you would shy away from in larger venues.

David Sanborn

#24. As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

Dan Hawkins

#25. I love the intimacy of small venues, I really do, I like that look that people have that they feel like they're special and they can hear and they can see the band as well.

Shingai Shoniwa

#26. Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

Rocco DiSpirito

#27. I'd rather just help people with my creative energy. I want to remind them that they're cosmic light inside physical forms and they're an incredibly special part of god's wild mind of love, but I'd love to do that in the form of playing at venues or showing a film at festivals.

Giuseppe Andrews

#28. It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.

Ana Gasteyer

#29. We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.

Doug Aitken

#30. Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

John Deacon

#31. A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

Alex Kapranos

#32. Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.

Harmony Korine

#33. I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me.

Ed Sheeran

#34. I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.

Sara Bareilles

#35. After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

Aaron Belz

#36. Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Margaret Atwood

#37. Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.

Tom Stoppard

#38. I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

David Guetta

#39. they can all stand quiescent in airless venues for extended periods, their eyes' expressions that unique NYC combination of Zen meditation and clinical depression, clearly unhappy but never complaining.

David Foster Wallace

#40. We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

Zachary Cole Smith

#41. A heart filled with emotions doesn't require rituals and venues for expressing true love.

Waheed Ibne Musa

#42. I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

Ridley Scott

#43. They talk about human rights until the rights include things they personally do not like as alternatives. There needs to be Frank discussions. And Shirley can join too because the pun works. The ideas of human beings of all demeanor and venues are at stake here.

Leviak B. Kelly

#44. It's fun playing small venues.

Tracy Chapman

#45. I will definitely start in small venues, as I want to find my feet as a performer; the first shows that Westlife did was ten dates at Wembley, which was just crazy. We didn't have a clue what we were doing because it was so big.

Shane Filan

#46. I've played Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach several times, but I personally don't enjoy those larger venues. I much prefer theater or a performance space.

Jason Mraz

#47. With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.

Rik Mayall

#48. There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don't have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

Mary Hart

#49. It seems a little bit like the home of the U.S. Open in the States. For all the venues of the U.S. Open this is more synonymous for the U.S. Open than any other one.

Padraig Harrington

#50. I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

Martha Wainwright

#51. Critics for established venues are vetted by editors; they usually demonstrate a certain objectivity; and they come with known backgrounds and specialized knowledge.

Michael Dirda

#52. So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.

Imogen Heap

#53. I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.

Glenn Close

#54. If I could make the same amount of money doing standup it would be no contest. The problem is that if you do make that kind of money doing standup, it's not in clubs, it's in big auditoriums and large venues, and I really think something is lost when you do standup for a big crowd.

Joe Rogan

#55. They are the three venues I wanted to box in - I wasn't really interested in Las Vegas and all of them places. The three I always said was Croke Park, United, and Madison Square Garden.

Tyson Fury

#56. Man, I live in Nashville. I know how good other songwriters and singers are around here. There's a wealth of talent in this town, not to mention the people who shoot in for a week or two to try their hand on lower Broad or the other venues around town.

Jamey Johnson

#57. At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of threw us back to 1983, when we had very similar reactions on a much bigger scale.

Roger Andrew Taylor

#58. This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together.

Amanullah Khan

#59. The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

Carlisle Floyd

#60. Music, in all of its variations and venues, is the world's oldest social network.

Richard J. Alley

#61. After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.

Ellie Goulding

#62. Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

Anna Meredith

#63. In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.

Leigh Anne Tuohy

#64. Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

Robert D. Kaplan

#65. Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.

Sonny Rollins

#66. That's why the savvy bride purchases wedding insurance. Like travel insurance, wedding insurance will guarantee that you don't lose the entirety of your deposits on things like venues, cakes, photographers, food suppliers, wedding limos, flowers, honeymoon, even your gown ...

Meg Cabot

#67. My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.

Ronnie Dunn

#68. I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

Garrett Hedlund

#69. We're from Athens, Alabama. That's my town. People think it's Muscle Shoals, but they have no idea. It's a quiet, sleepy little town, about 45 minutes from Muscle Shoals. It's really hard to be a band in Athens; there are no venues.

Brittany Howard

#70. Go for the girl who can eat a proper meal. If she's passionate about food, you'll most likely be fortunate in other venues.

Liz Vassey

#71. Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.

Cliff Stearns

#72. I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

David Edelstein

#73. The plan is to start performing smaller venues and work my way up from there, this anxiety isn't going to get the better of me.

Zayn Malik

#74. People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.

David Byrne

#75. There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.

Mike Birbiglia

#76. My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues.

Wale

#77. you are creating a product, so maximize the revenue from your product by selling it simultaneously to as many different venues as possible,

Thomas Woll

#78. The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.

Bill Ayers

#79. When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.

Moby

#80. We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

John Entwistle

#81. The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.

Sebastian Coe

#82. Is it ever worthwhile to buy a review? Not in my opinion. With independent paid review services, quality can be a problem; plus, there are plenty of non-professional book review venues out there that will review for free.

Victoria Strauss

#83. There are so many good venues in Chicago.

Lee DeWyze

#84. And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.

Rex Hunt

#85. We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming.

Chester Bennington

#86. Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere.

Todd Barry

#87. At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to another, from one venue to another, it can become longer.

Rokia Traore

#88. I would show up at any venue that had an open mic.

Ludacris