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Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.
I go to music festivals, and people want to talk to me about racism. I'm like, 'Bro, I'm trying to have fun!'
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.
Festivals are weird, you never know what to expect so it's a bit more nerve wracking then playing your own show.
We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.
I started doing independent films. My first one was 'Miss Bala,' which was very well-received at film festivals.
I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.
Indian audience has a mindset that a movie which does well at film festivals will necessarily be slow and boring.
People are going to be seeing me a lot everywhere: TVs, music, movies, festivals. You name it, I'm gonna be there.
I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.
I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
I love sweets, but don't have them every day. I have them maybe once a week or during social functions or festivals.
I love braids and just generally playing around with different hairstyles, especially for festivals and photoshoots.
Sometimes when you're playing certain festivals you're no' allowed to announce other dates, if you know what I mean?
My school is very good and quite understanding and know I have to take time off for interviews or writers' festivals.
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.
To be honest, I was just honored to be in the same festival [ Raindance Film Festival's ] as Johnny To and Dominik Moll.
Festivals are good to open the road for you, to bring in new faces and voices, but not to go back to once you've made it.
I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.
Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.
Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.
In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.
Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.
This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood.
I find it funny how at British festivals there are such inflated egos. It's rare that I even talk to anyone at a lot of them.
Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.
When I think about myself as a teenager going to festivals, you look to the main stage as the main entertainment of the night.
A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future
Parklife is one of the festivals I most look forward to. The crowds are wild; I love seeing that energy, those sweaty moshpits.
My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.
We seek festivals for two reasons - either to create buzz because it is a small film or to find unexplored markets outside India.
Smaller films that have a great run at the festivals usually result in the audience promoting the film on social media and so on.
I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.
It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.
I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs - Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band - we'd compete in festivals.
On an average, any short film will cost at least Rs. 60,000. Apart from film festivals, where is the avenue to get that money back?
All my friends are usually at festivals... I just have so much adrenaline running, I literally could run a marathon after my shows.
We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit.
the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.
Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.
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.
It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like 'The Raid' and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals.
I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at literary festivals.