“To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.” WorldGuySongKnownRocksBandVideoConcertsKoreaDance MusicFunny MusicRock SongFunny SongFunny Videos Author:PSY
“I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, 'This is really great.'” PlaySchoolOpportunityBandTunesConcertsReally Great Author:Teddy Thompson
“I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.” KidsRocksBandConcertsRock Concerts Author:Dave Grohl
“Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.” IfsKidsYoungThreeParentSecretAudienceGenerationsFansRocksBrotherBandFollowingNeighborAppealsConcertsGatheringAntithesisSecret SocietyYounger BrotherThree GenerationsRock Concerts Author:Paul Stanley
“My band and music are so intense they scare me, and I'm not afraid of anything. We love our music with everything we got and deliver the most inebriating fun concerts on earth every night.” EarthNightFunBandIntenseConcertsScareNot AfraidEvery Night Author:Ted Nugent
“Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug.” GivingSocialChurchPleasureDrugBandConcernedRootsFunctionDancingHallsConcertsMarching Band Author:Oliver Sacks
“The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.” BigsMillionsBandAlbumsConcerts Author:Levon Helm
“People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.” PeopleKnowsWantCareHoursHalfRecordsFansProduceBandDifficultyDon't CareReleaseConcertsEquipment Author:Slash
“I'm experiencing the mood to go out and share the music. I don't look at these concerts as a platform for people to watch me, look at me. No, a tour is about an interaction. A thing, myself, a band, and the people who support what I do and enjoy what I do.” PeopleLooksEnjoyWatchesSupportShareBandMoodConcertsInteractionPlatformsLook At MeWatch Me Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides concrete examples of some of the best ways to present the music in the widest variety of settings-radio, TV, recordings, movies, concert halls, festivals, solo, small ensemble, big band, symphony orchestra, opera, Broadway shows.... You name it, he did it!” WayImportantShowsBigsNamesCareersExampleTvsBandElementsJazzRadioSettingBest WaySettingsVarietyHallsConcertsOperaConcreteSoloBroadwayOrchestraFestivalsSymphonyDukesEnsembleBroadway ShowsSymphony Orchestras Author:Billy Taylor
“The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but she actually understands how "my" brain works. This almost rivals my first concert- Cindy Lauper when I was 12. She was so fascinating to me at the time. She made me want to dye my hair pink and start a band. (SO I naturally did)... All Cure records have had a great effect on me musically also.” WantFirstsMadeBeautifulReligiousBrainRecordsSawsEffectsHairBandFirst TimeIntelligentCuresFascinatingConcertsLunchRivalsReligious ExperienceCindy Author:Jessicka
“We have an incredible audience. I'm as proud of how Fairport relates to its audience as I am of any music we have produced. I think we're a real people's band. Massive popular success has never bothered Fairport. We've never been put in the position of being celebrities. A Fairport concert is like a meeting of friends. There's no big, security wall around us. It's kind of how music should be.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindRealBigsAudienceSecurityPositionWallProudBandMeetingsIncrediblesRelateMassiveConcertsBothered Author:Ric Sanders
“Chopper asked to be in our band back in 1999 (we already had chosen somebody else who ended up annoying us) and then we kept running into and hanging out with him at concerts and car shows. We became friends. He shares the same passions as we do and every time we ran into him he looked like he was ready to step on stage with the Cramps. He was in Mr. Badwrench and before that he was in the Maus Maus when he was a teenager.” ShowsRunningPassionStepsShareStageCarReadyBandChosenTeenagerRanHanging OutConcertsAnnoyingCrampsChoppers Author:Lux Interior
“When my band MU landed on Maui in 1973 we were greeted by a wonderful group of peace loving brothers & sisters who we immediately formed a bond with. We had two instant roadies, Spider & Richard, who helped with every move of our musical equipment. We settled into our house on the edge of the rainforest that eventually became a portable studio. We started rehearsing and booked the Lahaina Civic Auditorium for a full moon concert starring MU and a local band The Space Patrol.” TwoMovingHouseSpaceWonderfulGroupsBrotherMoonBandMusicalEdgesStudiosLocalsInstantConcertsEquipmentSpidersCivicsFull MoonMauiRehearsingRainforestBrother SisterAuditoriums Author:Merrell Fankhauser
“I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was headed back east to study music, and if I hadn't been intrigued with the Native American flute, I suppose I'd now be jockeying for first chair of the brass section of some orchestra, or perhaps I'd be teaching music in a school system.” IfsYearsFirstsSchoolStudyTeachingBandEastPerformingNativeChairsConcertsNative AmericanSectionsOrchestraTrumpetsParadesIntriguedBrassSchool SystemFlutesRodeoMarching Band Author:R. Carlos Nakai
“If I can get that DAM trio back together again - "get the band back together" - and put on a concert of David Bowie's electronic music, that's the way I want to remember David, moving forward into the future of music.” IfsWayWantI CanTogetherRememberMovingBandMoving ForwardConcertsBack TogetherDamsElectronic MusicBowieTogether AgainTriosBack Together Again Author:Carlos Alomar
“I feel like there's not this black-and-white division between concert hall music and music that bands play in a bar. I don't know if this was ever truly the case, but I don't feel that I need to decide between playing for a sit-down, totally silent audience and playing for a bunch of noisy, drunk people in a bar. What I do with the group is somewhere in between.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsFeelsPlayBlackWhiteCasesAudienceGroupsBandSilentBarsBunchDrunkHallsDivisionConcertsBlack And WhiteNoisyDrunk People Author:Missy Mazzoli
“My first concert isn't that cool or ironic. I wish it had been like, "My first concert was the Backstreet Boys," but the first concert I went to, I think, was this band called The Samples.” ThinkingFirstsWishBoysBandConcertsIronicSampleBackstreetBackstreet Boys Author:Nick Kroll
“It was sort of in the jam-band era and it was at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester [New York], right where I grew up. I actually went back there a couple years ago when I was on tour for Kroll Show. I performed at that theater, which was really cool to go back to the first place I'd gone to a concert.” YearsFirstsShowsGoneNew YorkGrewCoupleBandGrew UpYears AgoTheaterTheatreErasConcertsJamReally CoolPortCapitol Author:Nick Kroll
“I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that's what the Grateful Dead is all about.” GivingYearsBoysMaterialsListeningBandGive MeGratefulDecadesFantasticTeenagerShirtsCollectionsConcertsT ShirtLive Concerts Author:Bill Walton