Quotes About Concerts

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.

I don't like to hold too much formality in concerts. It's not that I don't like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I'm more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you're watching them.

We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.

My dad was the one who took me to concerts and introduced me to new artists. One time, he drove me from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., on a school night to see 'U2' - he was a pretty dedicated Bono fan.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would like to come to my concerts, I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that, too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

The thing about doing concerts is that it's doing a live show. It's on my schedule. It's songs I want to sing. It's saying what I want to say. It's working with the people I want to work with. I don't have to worry about pleasing other people - I can do what I want, and people come along and go for the ride.

I don't go to a lot of shows. If you go to too many shows, then it doesn't become a special thing. Whenever I've been to a concert, it has been such a cool experience.

I've seen a fair amount of concert DVDs - some of them are great, some of them are not. If there are problems with them, it's usually because of budget limitations and camerawork.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.

I feel nervous before performing in live concerts, but it does not last more than five minutes.

There used to be a time when people used to hold up cigarette lighters and candles at concerts, and the place was aglow to celebrate the end of the evening, or during a slow song, there was this congregational euphoria that used to exist. It still does, but now it's a question of iPhones being held up.

Sometimes I ask at concerts, how many of you are on Twitter, and the crowd goes crazy. Then I ask about Facebook, and the crowd goes even more crazy.

What do kids do? They go to movies, and they go to rock concerts.

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

I never really went to any concerts that I wasn't in.

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.