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Quotes About Encore

It's so much fun to have vocal groups out on the road because we get to see them do their thing, and at the end of the night, we come back, and we all do a big thing together for the encore with 'American Band.'
~ Jay DeMarcus
For a show, I can bear a little longer than 45 minutes, not including encores.
~ Kim Shattuck
Encore un peu, Madame.
~ Agatha Christie
For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.
~ Steve Breen
A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.
~ Mae Martin
The End' eventually became the encore at all of our big concerts. We would play 'Light My Fire,' and there would be this incredible Summer Of Love '60s thing, and then we'd come out and bludgeon them with 'The End.'
~ John Densmore
When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.
~ Dan Smith
You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.
~ Elvis Presley
I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.
~ Colin Hay
I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
~ Florence Welch
When I check in at the Encore, they're like, 'Welcome back, sir.' I'm back home, it's like my second home.
~ Lil Jon
Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.
~ Haruki Murakami
The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.
~ Dillon Burroughs
Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore.
~ Roger Spottiswoode
Cancer reminds me of a very bad but tenacious performer who, although no one wants to see, insists on doing an encore, having a return engagement, making a comeback and, worst of all, going on tour.
~ Valerie Harper
The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.
~ Mac DeMarco
The encore should wrap up the audience's experience of the piece you just played.
~ Hilary Hahn
I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
~ Florence Welch
Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.
~ Haruki Murakami
In my concerts, people love when I sing a Latin encore with guitar.
~ Juan Diego Florez
Last on the bill, not least ladies and gentlemen. Here he is, back from the grave, back straight from the grave
~ Bob Dylan
I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.
~ Liz Phair
It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.
~ Neil Tennant
I dipped my head so I could look into his eyes. The monster at my table looked ready to cry. I'd managed to make a teenager depressed. Maybe I could shoot some fish in a barrel for an encore.
~ Ilona Andrews