That’s why, to this day, K.I.S.S. can sell out wherever they go… because they sell tickets, and they have that core fan base. You may not hear K.I.S.S. on the radio with a new single today. And they can still sell out anywhere.
We don’t have sports tickets, we don’t have corporate jets. We don’t have stadiums named after us.
I can remember visiting one school in Nottingham – where there were about 10 pupils on the brink of exclusion. They had about a term-and-a-half to go and I said to them that – if they didn’t miss another day – I’d get them football tickets at the end of their studies.
It’s a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you’re doing, it’s therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have ‘sold out.’ Just so you know, if you’re doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.
A friend is someone who supports you. And these people are buying tickets at outrageous ticket prices. If that ain’t support, I don’t know what is.
I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because ‘Wicked’ and ‘Rent’ and ‘Glee,’ each one was a young audience, so it’s a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they’ll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I’m 80 and in Vegas!
Everything will have a Yelp review. And if you’re a worker, there will be like credit scores. There already are to some extent. How reliable are you? How many jobs have you had? Have there been lawsuits filed against you? How many traffic tickets?
We as an industry need to do a better job of increasing the awareness of the show, decreasing the ticket price, and making it a better experience online to buy tickets.
Long before social media and even television, enterprising wrestling promoters wisely scouted and signed new stars that would not only help them sell tickets, but also garner publicity from mainstream sports media.
I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we’ve got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I’ve been quite surprised because I really didn’t expect to be wined and dined, and it’s quite nice.
We’ve been around, and we’ve stayed around, and we go out, and people still enjoy listening to us, and we still sell a lot of tickets, so what do I got to complain about? Nothing.
When I’m working with Red One, we all have to do everything, from making sets and costumes to tearing tickets. Forget about craft services! So when I get on a film set, it’s a thrill to be just working as an actor.
I don’t throw money away. First class tickets are very expensive. Why should I fly first class if I can fly business, which is the same thing? I would only fly first class if the ticket included access to some sort of special compartment that could save me if there was any crash.
I started off in sports centers with no promoter, no TV, no backing, just me, my bag and Oliver Harrison, having to sell tickets.
After ‘UNCLE,’ I never accepted the first offer: if I wanted more money, I asked for it. A better dressing room? Four first-class tickets instead of two? I’d ask for them, and I’d often get them.
Shakespeare in the Park is one of the greatest gifts in New York City. You just have to wait for the tickets – and it’s worth the wait.
It goes to extremes – from people saying I’m the best of all-time to people saying, ‘I hate that white boy.’ Who cares? At the end of the day, if people don’t like you, they’re not your friends anyway. They’re not going to be supporting you by buying your tickets and CDs and clothes.
When you run the Walt Disney Co., you gain a fair amount of experience in customer-facing businesses, particularly in site-based entertainment. I have a lot of experience in marketing, a lot of experience in selling, particularly tickets to site-based entertainment or movies or whatever.
Who cares if the locker room would embrace Conor McGregor. If Conor McGregor can be a revenue driver for WWE, if he can sell network subscriptions, or if he can sell thousands and tens of thousands of tickets, if he can move millions of T-shirts, who cares if anybody in the locker room likes it or doesn’t like it.
If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you’re talking about.
I’ve had ideas for romantic comedies, but it would be a much more darkly comic version than what usually sells tickets.
Online entertainment is easy. You can’t carry a TV set in your pocket, and everyone can’t afford cinema tickets every week as they are expensive.
Procrastination doesn’t work for everything. For instance, waiting to buy plane tickets at the last minute will typically end up costing you more.
Ben and I live like hermits. The night of a concert, we’ll be like, ‘Do you think we can get tickets?’ And everybody is like, ‘No, why didn’t you do this earlier?’
I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.
I don’t need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands of computers that can process digital tickets, money, and many other fiduciary objects in digital form. Think of thousands of robots wearing green eye shades, all checking each other’s accounting.
Capricorns like to stay in one place. I have to go to work in places like New York, but basically, I don’t want to go anywhere. One time, I got a trip around the world for doing something on television, and the travel agent was so excited, I gave her the tickets.
I’m an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don’t get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.
Sometimes Peggy herself would sell tickets to her museum, and if tourists asked her if Mrs. Guggenheim was still alive, she’d assure them she wasn’t.
I like to watch rallies. Every time I go, I park the car where the fans park – I don’t have any special tickets or permission to go – and I walk six kilometers.
I miss a lot of things; that’s the price one pays for stardom. I miss standing in queues, buying tickets, and watching films first day first show. It isn’t the same going to preview theatres or multiplexes and trying to stay incognito.
I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines and had a blast. The most memorable was going to Barcelona on a whim and scalping tickets at the Olympics to the Dream Team Quarterfinals.
They’d have to force me to take the All-Star Game. They take over the building, your season-ticket holders have to be in a lottery to see if they get tickets, and then they don’t get a good ticket. Really, no good can come out of it, and all it can do is upset your fans.
My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.
One of my friend’s dad owned a grocery store, and one of the kids who worked at the grocery store was a wrestler. We got tickets to one of the shows, and then we stayed after, and they asked us if we wanted to get in there and train a little bit.
When I started going to training my father used to take me. But that meant we had to buy two bus tickets and it was not easy for us, you know.
You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.
I think in the future we might see things arrive the way Prince announces a concert where a few days before the show he announces it and tickets just go up. You might see that with movies and other things.
I do like to drive fast and I have gotten pulled over in the past. I use my skills to get out of tickets.
I would say the first concert I ever went to is my earliest memory. I was four and already obsessed with Michael Jackson. We were living in Munich at the time. My mom, being the best person ever, somehow managed to get us two tickets to the ’97 Michael Jackson History World Tour.
I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets… then I got to ‘Saturday Night Live’ where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I’m going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I’m gonna go sit with.
Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen – Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).
In the commercial music world, the folk world, we sell records and concert tickets – this is the way I make a living. You go out, you make your art and hopefully people will put their money down for it. But it’s getting hard. I have to be on the road so much to keep the lights on.
I was in New York, I went to a Yankees game and I called and said, ‘Can I get tickets to the Knicks game?’ They said, ‘We can’t get you tickets no more to the Knicks game.’… They had tickets, but they said they didn’t have no tickets for me.
