Top 215 Concerts Quotes

I don’t know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.

Oh yeah – for sure – hardly a week doesn’t go by when I don’t hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.

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.

I used to be selected for the Pennsylvania all-state orchestra. It was a thrill to go from my home town of Aliquippa clear across the state to Lancaster for the concerts. No kid is immune to that kind of experience.

I would love to do more private concerts.

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.

I always tell my audiences not to listen to such artists who play audio CDs at their concerts. Such shows shouldn’t be called live shows. People like AR Rahman, Sunidhi Chauhan, and Arijit Singh are the ones who hold true concerts.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts – you could say I liked to show off.

My fans go right across the board. They come to my concerts in family groups.

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!

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.

I’ve done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows that except the people in New York.

I don’t necessarily enjoy playing concerts, although that has gotten more fun with a band. But the one thing I always have enjoyed is making records and being in that creative environment. And that has become a lot more enjoyable having other people involved.

My dad took me to loads of concerts when I was growing up.

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think’s right, pay your bills, and attract… a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.

There’s a tendency to make more money at concerts. That’s from a financial standpoint. Night clubs have a better feel, better contact between the artist and the audience.

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

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

I love dill pickles! They’re on my rider for my concerts so I eat one every day.

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

When we tour in America, the shows are great, and the fans are just as passionate and excited as anywhere else in the world, but in other parts of the world, in parts of South America and in parts of Europe and Asia, the size of the venues and the amount of people we get at concerts is considerably more.

When I was going to high school, in the high school band we would play these kind of hour-long concerts for our parents. All the parents would come to the gymnasium, and the band would play an hour-long kind of orchestra piece. ‘Synchestra’ is supposed to be similar, like a high school band orchestra piece.

At 9 years old, I did a lot of benefit concerts for my community.

When you’ve been a character in a movie – and this has happened when we’ve done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen – people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it’s a very schizophrenic thing.

With streaming concerts, we can all be together at the same time: the whole world, all at once, can be sitting front row from wherever they are in the world.

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

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.

Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts… Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman… The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year’s Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Our fans are so rabid, the live shows, they actually feel like concerts.

We lived above the church, and I remember there was no air conditioning in the church. I would shut all the windows and I would have concerts in there. Practice, you know, take the microphones.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don’t like doing them.

We didn’t have music videos. You weren’t an overnight sensation. You had to work at it and learn your craft: how to take care of your voice, how to pace your concerts, all that trial and error.

I’ve been offered, I think it was £300,000 to play live two concerts in London some years ago. And I said ‘No. No thanks.’ I would rather stay home here and change oil on my car, or collect some rotten wood from the forest, spread on my ruined former agricultural land.

In my concerts, I’m always doing new songs, so someone seeing me for the first time or many times before will be pleasantly surprised and hopefully entertained.

Yeah, I’m big into Drake as a lot of lads are. I’ve been to a few of his concerts and I usually have him playing on the way to games.

My fans have supported me in concerts around the world regardless of how well my current album was selling.

We live for our concerts. We like a live appearance more than anything else about this business and it bothers us when we put so much into it and the critics bomb us.

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

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.

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

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

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.

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

I’m a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I’m fond of using them as year-round home decor.

I open all my concerts with ‘My Backpages,’ written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with ‘May the Road Rise to Meet You,’ written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn.

In those projects with Sting and Josh Groban and people like that, I see a very interesting effect: their fans coming to my classical concerts, people who’ve never been to a classical show at all.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

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.

Life is very busy now. I find that in today’s cities, the public is very tired after working the whole day. When concerts start at eight o’clock, the wife pushes the husband to go to the concert, where some promptly fall asleep!

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.

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

Some collaborators might join forces in certain cities or special concerts. I’m excited to share the stage with some prestigious people that I love and respect.

I can’t even stay with my wife Saloni and my two daughters for a long span of time, as I have to travel all over the world for concerts.

My dad was the one who took me to concerts and introduced me to new artists. One time, he drove me from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., on a school night to see ‘U2’ – he was a pretty dedicated Bono fan.