Quotes About Connection

When you put the phone down at the concert, there's your 3-D, there's your HD.

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.

Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.

My mother met my father at a Roy Acuff concert.

One of the most rewarding things is meeting someone after a concert who has never been to a concert before. It is incredibly rewarding when they say, 'This is my first classical concert.' It is really exciting for everyone.

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

If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.

I open all my concerts with 'My Backpages,' written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with 'May the Road Rise to Meet You,' written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn.

I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And I try to make it that way.

I am always so excited to get to know a new audience. My concerts are very personal experiences.

Write what you want to write, write what people want to hear, and write about what they're going through, because if you could connect with the people who are listening to your music and coming to your concerts and coming to your meet and greets, then you're doing your job well.

We've still got some of our best friends living in Canberra and I still do some training with one of the strength and conditioning coaches at the Brumbies.

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

When I was young I wanted to be a bus driver, because my grandad was a conductor on the Routemasters.

I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

At least my situation I can be like, look, I avoid physical confrontations, obviously not because I have an issue with physical violence, but I try to see the bigger picture of what it takes for humans to coincide with each other. We're all the same race.

The most confronting thing you can do is talk about your feelings and open yourself up.

I think it would be very scary and very confusing if I didn't understand where people are coming from, but I've felt the exact same way for so many other bands, growing up. It's not really a big deal.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

I want more Internet. I want every one of the 6 billion people on the planet to be able to connect to the Internet - I think they will add things to it that will really benefit us all.

Sometimes the person furthest away from the audience doesn't connect with them as much.

I think that the beauty of 'Spud' is that everyone can connect to the character of Spud in so many ways. It's about real experiences that happen to kids all the time.