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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 do believe that the Chinese are becoming international leaders in showing the way forward for concert music.
Michael Jackson had a stable vision. He had a strong message, not only pop. People just fainted at his concert.
It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls.
You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.
I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season.
After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.
I've recorded a few Bacharach songs over the years and performed some in concert and always felt they suited me.
It doesn't matter if people take the music for free, because you can't illegally download a ticket to a concert.
I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.
My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
When I play 'Newhart' in concert, it always gets a hand, right from the very beginning. To me, 'Newhart' is a hit.
I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.
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 always have to poop right before I do a concert. I don't feel nervous, but I think that must be my body reacting.
First concert I saw was a British boy band called Take That when I was 14 or 15. I went with nine girls from school.
I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'.
I think the first concert I ever went to was maybe a Five Iron Frenzy concert or something when I was in high school.
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.
For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.
I wake up every day looking forward to the concert that night. I don't think you need much more inspiration than that.
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.
Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing.
I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.
The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.
The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.
If there are places where I didn't feel comfortable with the particular politics, then I just couldn't do a concert there.
I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.
Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
British electoral law forbids different campaign organisations acting in concert unless they have a shared cap on spending.
A lot of times you go to a concert, and when you leave, you don't know anything more about the act then when you got there.
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'.
Growing up, I remember thinking country music was all honky-tonks and beer and trucks - Britney Spears was my first concert.
You go into the venues, and there's a huge drop-off rate in the merch lines. People don't want to miss parts of the concert.
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits.
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.
It's so special to meet people after the show, getting that connection during the actual concert. It creates a stronger bond.
If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?
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?'
My most ideal date would be something spontaneous, probably a concert, where there's good music and we can talk and hang out.
We have opportunities to be used by the living God on a daily basis and I don't need the platform of a concert hall to do so.
In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.
A Grateful Dead concert is much more than the music: it's an experience, almost like being in a family of thousands of people.
Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.