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The worst parts of playing a festival are walking. Not a fan of walking. The mud, I can handle. But the walking? No, ta.
If you're not keen on crowds, it might be best to give Edinburgh a miss during festival time when it can get extremely busy.
My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.
I won a prize for 'best sponge cake' at the Clacton Festival 2005. Having said that, I was only up against three other cakes.
When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.
We all celebrate Ganpati festival with a lot of love and care for the deity, but we also need to take care of the environment.
I've seen the Stones play for three hours, and the crowd knew every song. It's what you want in a headline slot at a festival.
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
I don't ever take anything for granted. I know... people would kill for the opportunity to play on festival stages and whatnot.
When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
I was super happy when I went to Cannes Film Festival - I got a full sponsorship from my favourite Danish brand, Mads Norgaard.
To be invited to the Park - the greatest free Shakespeare festival in the world - is a great honor, and I don't take it lightly.
There's so many things that can go wrong, and if I'm merely playing and not hosting a festival, none of those things reflect on me.
At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.
The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.
'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.
Once when we performed at a festival there were between 50, 000 and 60, 000 people in the audience we were so shocked. It was crazy.
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.
In New York, I'll walk down the street and someone will say, 'Nice show,' and that's it. If I'm at a food festival, it's open season.
Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.
I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.
My favorite part of festival season is probably the disposable income at hand for me... I get booked for more, and I make more money.
Deepavali is my 'favouritest' festival. More than Pongal or New Year's, this is the time we all come together as family and celebrate.
I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.
At a festival, the people there are not all your fans, and this gives me a chance to win over new people. I look at it as a challenge.
There's nothing more fun than just walking through town or maybe going to a community-based festival. How much does that cost? Nothing!
We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.
Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in America due to its proximity to Christmas.
So, the concept was a single-stage festival, and I open and close the festival to encourage people to stay for all of the other artists.
I've always been against the idea of dividing films between festival titles and popular movies. I think you can make films that are both.
Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consumption and detrimental effects on health.
Standing at a Christian music festival in Asbury, Ky., in the spring of 1978, I gave my life to Jesus Christ, and that's changed everything.
In Tamil Nadu, watching a film on a festival is a part of our culture. People prefer going to a theatre rather than bursting crackers at home.
I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.
Wow, a left-wing leader getting a good reception at a rock festival. What kind of crazy world is it we live in that that kind of thing happens?
My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.
My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
I think each one of us should try and do small things on Diwali so that those who are not as privileged as we are can also have a good festival.
Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.
I landed in Los Angeles where I've stayed, with one year-long exception when I returned to Ashland as an actor in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.
I love the outdoor festival feeling. When I'm on stage, it's very gratifying to watch people on the lawns enjoying the music with a glass of wine.
To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.
I did a ski festival in Austria once. I was struck by how friendly Austrians were, before gradually realising it's more that Glaswegians are awful.
In 1972, I climbed out of my bedroom window and ran away from home with my older sister and her friends to go to the infamous Sunbury rock festival.