The wonderful thing about having your songs on the radio is that people are going to go out to your concerts and buy your merchandise and that sort of thing, and it feels good to get that level of name recognition.
I’m always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.
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.
Recording a song for a film doesn’t take much time; it’s hardly an hour’s job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I’ve to take time out to work on my albums because I’m passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.
Going into 2010, we didn’t expect the consumer pullback that happened. We all thought that the theory that concerts are recession-proof was true.
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.
In Europe we play big concerts, but in America it’s so cool to see all the people – and all the girls.
It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. They even make guest appearances in our concerts occasionally.
There has been a huge growth in the audience attending live concerts. It’s delightful to see the increase in audience members and I hope to see more demand for live concerts in the years to come.
The fans of ‘The Hunger Games,’ of the book, are very passionate. It’s funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up ‘Cinna’ signs.
The one thing that concerts have done for me is given me the opportunity to get back to sort of do songs that I want to do. It’s about enjoying yourself.
Even at al my mother’s concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.
As an actor, you’re supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the ’90s, I wasn’t really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.
I got on a bit of a rollercoaster looking into how Herbie Hancock used to make his tunes, and I remember a picture of Jean-Michel Jarre at one of his concerts and seeing the Memorymoog. When I heard the sound it I was like, ‘Arrrgh, I really need that.’
I did ‘Oh Holy Night,’ which is one that I grew up listening to because I was in choir in high school and we would do Christmas concerts and competitions every year.
Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I’m me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.
Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That’s not what real life is about.
I’ve been a part of Margazhi festival even as a little boy. I used to accompany my mom to concerts held by the Music Academy.
It’s people, not possessions, that make home for me. It’s not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.
I don’t like to hold too much formality in concerts. It’s not that I don’t like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I’m more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you’re watching them.
There are so many reasons to mark the passing of the great Joe Cocker – as many songs as he wrote, recorded and performed in his remarkable concerts. For me, Cocker was also the only performer who successfully covered and even improved on The Beatles.
I didn’t start going to concerts until I moved to California.
Write what you want to write, write what people want to hear, and write about what they’re going through, because if you could connect with the people who are listening to your music and coming to your concerts and coming to your meet and greets, then you’re doing your job well.
Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.
I always thought it was sad that you couldn’t get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
I go to movies and concerts and stuff – that’s why I think all my money would be gone if I weren’t working because I just keep spending it, on that, and CDs, and I don’t know.
A lot of concerts are just too safe.
When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about your gown, your hair, your body, and how you present yourself on stage.
As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that’s the music I play, but I am also always trying to find out who the voices of our time are. I attend a spectrum of concerts that are close to classical – anything from Wynton Marsalis to Renee Fleming.
I think I’m pretty laid back. I like cooking, being at home, and going to concerts. And I love to shop!
When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they’ll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.
I don’t want to slow down. It’s my life. I love being on the road and giving concerts.
Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
I’ve done more than a few concerts on the same stage as Nik Kershaw, and I’ve done a couple with Go West.
Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I’ve listened to a lot and whose concerts I’ve been to. I love the experience. I don’t dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.
My first love was basketball, but that wasn’t gonna launch me, and I knew I had to get into other things. So me and my friends, we started making mix CDs and going down to South Beach or to the parking lot at Pitbull concerts to spend all night hustling.
So I’m in my 51st year of playin’ mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.
My oldest daughter is a pianist; she plays concerts. We play together, also.
I’m now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.
I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
When I go to a concert, I can’t help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.
The Old Vic is special to me because that’s where I began. I lived in New Bond Street in London in a flat that cost 4.20 a week. I split the rent with friends. We used to go to concerts, theatres, we went to the Proms.
I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.
For a long time, I couldn’t actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, ’cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.
I think it’s cool to do a summer outdoor show because, growing up, like, those were always the shows and the concerts that I would get to see, where I would be sitting on the grass with my friends and hanging out, and it was such a moment.
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.
I basically learned hip-hop from *NSYNC. And then while I was touring in theater shows, and I couldn’t take classes in hip-hop but I wanted to, I just watched Justin Timberlake concerts.
My dad had two, sometimes three jobs. Besides running the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, he did jazz concerts, and he ran this great jazz label, Commodore.
I sing what I sing. And that’s recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease – no, that’s not the right word – let’s say to satisfy – any opera urgings that my public has, I’ll put in an aria.
