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“The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.”

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Author:B. B. King

“The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.”

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Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.”

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Author:Lenny Kravitz

“Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.”

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Author:Frank Langella

“Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, "Thank you, I love you guys," or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.”

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Author:Avril Lavigne

“When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.”

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Author:Avril Lavigne

“It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?”

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Author:John Lennon

“At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'”

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Author:Adam Levine

“I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.”

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Author:Adriana Lima

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”

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Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

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

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Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.”

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Author:John Lydon

“But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.”

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Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.”

“In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.”

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Author:Stephane Mallarme

“In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.”

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Author:Bruno Mars

“People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.”

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Author:Hugh Masekela

“And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.”

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Author:Kurt Masur

“My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.”

“A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.”

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Author:Freddie Mercury

“A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.”

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Author:Freddie Mercury

“When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.”

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Author:Moby

“I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.”

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Author:Erin Morgenstern

“It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts, it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cos I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.”

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Author:Steven Morrissey

“My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.”

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Author:Eddie Murphy

“I don't actually go to that many concerts.”

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Author:Andy Murray

“When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.”

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Author:Holly Near

“I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.”

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Author:Gary Numan

“The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.”

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Book:Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

“All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.”

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

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Author:Mandy Patinkin

“When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.”

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Author:Mandy Patinkin

“Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.”

“I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.”

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Author:Robert Plant

“A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts.”

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Author:Elvis Presley

“The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.”

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Author:Theodor Reik

“I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.”

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Book:Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

“I've been meeting with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino for years, trying to figure out how to fix the concert industry. We're all so overpaid. It's ridiculous. People stopped going to concerts because they can't afford them. The Rolling Stones are charging $650 per ticket! That just makes me speechless. I love the Stones, but I won't be attending.”

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Author:Kid Rock

“Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.”

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Author:Kid Rock

“My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.”

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Author:Carlos Santana

“When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.”

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Author:Carlos Santana

“I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.”

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Author:Clara Schumann

“The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!”

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Author:Jill Scott

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