If I’m doing a concert, and I’m having a problem with the audience… I just play a Bob Marley song, and I’m good for the rest of the night.
There is something about the stage that makes it so much better than being in the studio. I always connect with my audience; a concert to me is a collaboration between me and the audience, and I love it so much.
I didn’t know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I’ll be all right.
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
I don’t know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.
I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I’d end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.
As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.
I love pop music… some hip hop… not super big into rap, but I love Rihanna. I love Alicia Keys. Rihanna was my first concert I went to. I love her.
Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world.
When you don’t act right to your family and friends, that’s bad, but they also have the opportunity to experience the ‘good’ side as well. Disappointing the fans is an entirely different thing because the fans love your music and save up money to see you in concert.
I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
I love music but I never went to a concert in my life. The first time I went to a concert I performed on a stage with Drake.
I’m not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I’m going to mess up a lot.
When Neil Young caught two women incessantly texting at a concert in 2012, he began mock typing on an invisible phone on stage until the women noticed and apparently left the show.
The way I do that is to keep coming up with good songs and when I do a concert, I make sure I give a good performance. It’s not rocket science.
My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, ‘Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,’ with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
When you’re shooting concert scenes in films, we try to bring in, where appropriate, as much of a sense of live performance as possible.
For ‘Rock On,’ we not only acted as rock musicians; we also went into the studio to record songs and jammed live to get the concert feel right.
A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
In June 1972, I went with friends to see the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Forum. After the concert, as we crossed through the parking lot, a guy in a brown Mercedes stopped in the middle of the street and got out. He came up to me and asked if I had ever modeled.
I want people to know that I appreciate every piece of music they buy and every concert ticket because that’s what keeps this going. Knowing that people are coming to the shows and enjoying my music makes every long day worth it.
In the studio, you can redo things. In concert, you only have one shot at it, so you have to try to be as perfect as possible.
I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.
Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species’ history.
When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don’t think you’ll ever see a comedian there. They’ll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.
I know that out of the thousands of people who show up, maybe nine of them will actually understand what’s going on stage, music-wise. But no one should be sitting down in my concert.
It’s so special to meet people after the show, getting that connection during the actual concert. It creates a stronger bond.
It’s a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I’d rather not know.
I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn’t have in the ’60s and ’70s.
You don’t hear a film director saying ‘Money mustn’t go out of the industry’ to actors. You don’t hear a concert promoter saying ‘We must make sure that money doesn’t go out of our industry’ to Elton John. Some people in football seem to think, ‘Never mind the players, let’s get on with the game.’
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert… if it’s too loud, you’re too old.
