Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want folks to leave our concerts feeling better than when they arrived.

We're going to have our parades, we're going to have our symphonies, our concerts and everyone's going to have good time,

With the last few years of consecutive declines in attendance, the trends for live concerts overall aren't particularly encouraging.

Kim Kardashian

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

We thought we could get the same type of experience without extending ourselves to promote concerts and those type of things.

Julian Bond

She was trained to be an opera singer. She gave concerts to raise money for him, and when he died she continued to try to keep his legacy alive.

Neil Tennant

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.

Lucy Griffiths

I mostly did musicals and concerts when I was younger, and then I realized I don't quite have the voice for it, so I went into acting, which I enjoy more.

Zubin Mehta

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

David Gilmour

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.

Zubin Mehta

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.

Matt Jordan

My friends hate me because I can get in to all these concerts now.

Matisyahu

I felt a real strong connection and still do with Hanukkah. So it started out by doing concerts on Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights tour, and then, yeah, let's make some Hanukkah songs. Let me make a Hanukkah song that kids can listen to, party to and get the spirituality of it, because it is not just about dreidels and having fun.

Boris Vian

The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

Andrae Crouch

I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve.

Andy Murray

I don't actually go to that many concerts.

We'll have no place to keep the concerts going. They seem very respective.

It is going to be really exciting because the concerts I am conducting will be graduate students. I think they will be outstanding.

Kellin Quinn

I think fans going to concerts expect more today in terms of meeting and things. It's cool - I get it because of how the Internet has made things much more personal for fans to follow with Facebook, Twitter and everything - but I also think it's kind of hindering because it takes from the music in a way.

We learned that not all concerts are created equal. We'll look at the schedule before and after the dates and we'll look at the size of the show.

Cheryl James

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.

Jenni Rivera

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

Phillip Phillips

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.

This will be a little something different, ... It will be like the old-time concerts for families in the park.

Kelli O'Hara

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.

Richard Eyre

The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.

Dave Foley

The association concerts provide quality, live entertainment that people can afford,

We'll have five Gainesville concerts plus three children's concerts plus two in Hiawassee. Six years ago I would not have dreamed this day would be possible.

Barry McGuire

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.

James Taylor

A concert is always like a feast day to me.

Mark Shapiro

This industry relies too much on big rides. We have to diversify. We have to focus on more concerts and more themed attractions.

A lot of people, especially songwriters, like house concerts because they're so intimate, ... It's relaxed and people get to hear the stripped-down version of the songs, not an artist's interpretation or version of a song.

It's just one of those concerts you have to go to,