Quotes About Festival

His life was a festival of excess that could not be contained. Deafening music, eye-popping bright colors, sugar added to almost everything he ate. Quinn's life was a bullet in a barrel ready to explode.

You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

I was acting before I was modelling, when I was very young, doing the Edinburgh Festival and that sort of stuff.

The Monaco Grand Prix is in May right around the time of Cannes.

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.

I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world.

We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.

Coachella is a festival fashion show where people dress up like hippies and pretend that Passion Pit is as good as the Rolling Stones.

But I do exist. Remember that . . . This is not Avalon now, t'Larien, and today is not yesterday. It is a dying Festival world, a world without a code, so each of us must cling tightly to whatever codes we bring with us. (Jaan Vikary)

Having my film premiere in Cannes has always been the ultimate dream for me. It is a combination of the elegance of the festival, the setting and the quality of films that premiere there.

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

I am honored to be one of this year's Urbanworld ambassadors for the festival's 20th anniversary, joining my friend David Oyelowo. I have always had a special relationship with Urbanworld, back to my days as a festival publicist to previewing my earlier films and now as an ambassador.

Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.

Back in the days before the Internet, there was no place to put a short film, so Mike Gribble and Spike Decker had this festival of animation. My student films got selected.

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.

Or a Moonie festival or something.

The worst parts of playing a festival are walking. Not a fan of walking. The mud, I can handle. But the walking? No, ta.

Oh, the dilemma of the summer music festival. On one hand, we ladies try very hard to look cute walking around those muddy fields in our cowboy boots and cut-offs. On the other hand, we want to look like we really didn't try at all and just rolled out of bed looking this way.

In the '70s, as a kid, someone took me to a Tournee of Animation festival at the L.A. County Museum of Art.

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work.

Then I guess we cannot miss the famous festival in New Orleans, he found himself saying, just to take the shadows from her eyes. She was silent a moment, her fingers twisting in the blanket. Do you mean it, Gregori? We can go? You know how much I love crowds of humans, he said, straight-faced. She laughed at him. They don't bite. I do, he said, the words low and soft, his silver gaze at once possessive.