From their ’61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It’s the musical trough from which nearly every musician drinks.
I’m not particularly lucid after a concert. I’m not very lucid before, either.
If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert – which I would never think of doing otherwise – that’s just the way it is. Even if I can’t hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.
My first concert was Pantera.
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
I have some friends, and they’re super-hipster. And they’re like, ‘All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.’ And I’m like, ‘Cool… That’s not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.’
I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can’t cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.
Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin were such a close second. My first concert ever was the Rolling Stones in Denver. I snuck a camera backstage and filmed Mick Jagger during sound-check.
Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comedy clubs, to playing concert halls, and had an off-Broadway show with ‘Sleepwalk With Me.’
I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.
To sit in my concert and be uncomfortable is brave. Because you could always leave, you know?
I want to expand jazz; I don’t want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a jazz concert before. One way to do that is by making records that have a lot of different kinds of music on them.
The Fed has been acting in rare concert with central banks worldwide to encourage borrowing and spending – and risk. And because all the new money being unleashed has to flow somewhere, it’s been flowing, among other places, into the equity markets.
I can’t play on a full stomach, so I save my eating for after the concert.
There’s an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
Until I started performing in public, when at the end of the concert people would come to me with teary eyes and say that my performance took them to a trance zone, I had no idea that I can create an impact with my singing.
To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, ‘Oh well, that’s for women’.
A Grateful Dead concert is much more than the music: it’s an experience, almost like being in a family of thousands of people.
As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up… so we can focus… so we can be in concert with one another.
Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn’t do anything I’d be embarrassed of.
I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.
When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.
I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is an internal debate. This will happen when Quebecers are ready.
A magic show and a concert are very similar in the way I like keeping things a mystery and not doing them the same way every time. The listener and the audience never know what’s going to happen next.
When I sang my father’s songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, ‘Can I measure up?’
The first time I performed on stage, that was almost the first concert I went to, so that was pretty interesting and a bit weird at the same time.
I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of ‘KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.’ The minute I saw Gene and Paul… it was all over. I knew that’s what I wanted to do.
You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.
Somewhere along the line, a concert became a variety show. It was no longer enough for four dudes to play together in front of some guitar amps. Costume changes, an army of dancers, and Broadway theatrics suddenly became standard for a ‘concert.’
Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, ‘Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it’s impossible because it’s sold out.’ It’s really amazing.
I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.
You shouldn’t even be writing this story if you haven’t heard me play live. You can’t write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.
I would love to have some sort of ‘Back To The Future’ Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.
If I do a song where I’m angry, when it’s time to perform it live I’m not mad, I’m happy. I’m at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That’s acting.
Before I ever did a stage concert, I’d done hundreds of living-room concerts, which helped a lot.
I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I’d be physically damaged by the end of a concert.
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, ‘What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!’ I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first – the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.
There’s definitely no subtlety in what I do. When you want to get your face melted, you come to a Grace Potter and the Nocturnals concert.
For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great – and also seeing concerts and seeing friends and, whenever possible, getting out to see a museum.
Because I don’t take money, I’ll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
It doesn’t matter if people take the music for free, because you can’t illegally download a ticket to a concert.
Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing ‘Satisfaction’ every concert. That would drive me insane.
I’m a big fan of Kid Cudi. He was, like, the only concert I think I went to as a kid. He was on tour with Asher Roth.
Doing a concert, I look at a room full of different people, and I see you’ve got Muslims, you’ve got Jews, you’ve got Christians, you’ve got gays, you’ve got straights, you’ve got blacks, you’ve got whites. I think, ‘How can I unite these people through song?’
Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.
We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There’s just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want a big sound. We do use some guitar effects, distortion and delay. Playing cello with distortion sounds so good.
You get into any club you want, you have backstage passes for any concert you can think of, anywhere. You have access to everything, in the same way a toddler does. Everybody’s like, ‘Oh come on in!’
One day I’m going to open up a club or a concert venue where it’s all ages and really fun. That’d be awesome.
I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.
I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
Working together in concert more smoothly not only helps us move more quickly; it changes the nature of what we can undertake. When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.
Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person; I prefer to be private. I didn’t mind doing videos, even if they came very close with the camera. I can take that, but walking on stage in concert and singing live, that is a bit difficult.
The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.
I’ve recorded a few Bacharach songs over the years and performed some in concert and always felt they suited me.
I do believe that the Chinese are becoming international leaders in showing the way forward for concert music.
I wake up every day looking forward to the concert that night. I don’t think you need much more inspiration than that.
