Quotes About Venue

It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall.

We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

I'd never be able to keep this place if it didn't pay for itself," he said. "It's absurd for one person or family to own something like this, but here we are. Now it earns its keep by hosting weddings and events, film shoots, things like that. Spring and summer, Christmas and New Year's . . . those are the busiest times.

I briefly considered whether it could be a setup. If they were on to me, though, this was already a pretty perfect venue. They didn't have to convince me to go somewhere else.

I think back to the Eagles, Elton John, people like that when I think about the Troubadour. It's an iconic place.

Dodger Stadium is not an antique. It's not Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a nice place to play baseball, but there are far better.

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

When we're out touring, we often go to clubs to see people play. The alternative is to go back to the hotel And that's no good.

It's always important when you play in a tournament that they have a basketball court and an arena.

Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business.

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

I hope that Ring Of Honor could one day sell out Madison Square Garden when WWE is not in town.

In the early 1950s the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tried something old. Like many another venue for productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Shaw, the Brattle had become a film house in the early 1950s. But it was a film house unlike any other. It had a rear-screen projector, rather than the standard setup that beamed movies on a screen above the audience. And it had owners who believed that the past could be more alluring than the present.

We played in a number of these neutral site games, I would call them, whether it's a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that's not really a home game for them.

I could have done a night at the O2 in London, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I'm not being big-headed, but for my act I can't be talking to an audience of 12,000 people. There's no intimacy.

I previously played King Tut's in Glasgow, which is one of my favourite gigs. It's really intimate.

I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.

First Avenue is one of my favorite places to play. All along, they've treated me with respect.

denials are the small talk of the lawyer's venue, more common than discussions of the weather

I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.

Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.