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Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else”

Ifs Hard Oneself Tunes Concerts

Author:George Santayana

“I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.”

People Shows Turns Stuff Television Concerts Coming Out Offensive Turn-on Nightclubs

Author:Tom Lehrer

“When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years - and I find I mind it less and less.”

Years Mind Long Seven Forty Concerts Seven Years Symphony One Woman

Author:Louise Andrews Kent

“When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.”

Performances Hearing Conception Concerts Replaced Dominant Altered Hearing Music

Book:Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist

Source: Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist

“I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.”

Rocks Singing Crowds Lifts Concerts Rock N Roll Anthem Rock Concerts Back Roads

Author:Rodney Atkins

“History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.”

Heard Spots Halls Concerts Occasional

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.”

Bigs School Fun Felt Lessons High School Concerts Time Off Harps Evanescence

Author:Amy Lee

“The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.”

Firsts Real Night Three Voice Powerful Dog Dad My Dad Sexy Concerts Fifteen Garbage Fourteen Pumpkin Annie Smashing Manson Three Dog Smashing Pumpkins

Author:Amy Lee

“At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.”

Ifs Remember Music Fire Objects Red Gold Filled Painter Colour Concerts Rainbow Orchestra Violin

Author:James Elkins

“People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline... can be traced, at least in part, to unconscious stimuli that make us live faster.”

People Today Culture Fun Activity Faster Unconscious Museums Concerts Fewer Decline Stimulus

Book:Wait: The useful art of procrastination

Source: Wait: The useful art of procrastination

“If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.”

People Ifs Want Needs Feels Believe Shows Who I Am Concerts God's Love

Book:Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

Source: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

“At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.”

Heart Long Important Bigs Audience Greater Singers Intimacy Excitement Good Times Concerts Performers Having A Good Time Appearing Nightclubs Saloons

Author:Frank Sinatra

“There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.”

Ifs Way Mind Culture Concerts Deaf Listening To Music Meditating

Author:Alan Watts

“I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection”

Ifs Heart Use Feelings Simple My Heart Gratitude Lays Notes Dear Affection Concerts Daddy Simple Words Filial

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.”

Giving Art Ideas Real Beautiful Giving Up Hearing Concerts Beautiful Things Real Music

Author:Frederic Chopin

“For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.”

People Thinking Three Our Lives Events Majors Concerts Unforgettable

Book:Pavarotti, My World

Source: Pavarotti, My World

“I really liked Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie it was like NASCAR for potheads.”

Whole Scene Ties Concerts Uniforms Camaraderie Nascar Potheads Tie Dye

Author:Ann Coulter

“My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations, but interestingly, I didn't become conscious of wanting to be a musician until I was about 11. I was a rather late starter.”

Whole Childhood New York Late Musician Conscious Organization Filled Concerts Classical Music Ensemble Starters

Author:Gunther Schuller

“I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?”

Fans Response Queens Concerts Viewers Mercury Forums Interviewers

Author:Freddie Mercury

“I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.”

Thinking Way Hard Remember Audience Seeing Incredibles Hard Times Concerts Invited

Author:John Lurie

“Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.”

Industry Agency Productive Concerts Concurrence

Book:A treatise on political economy

Source: A treatise on political economy

“[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality”

Years Firsts Reality Eye Heard First Time Performances Impression Intimate Concerts Canvas Crude Unfinished Webern

Author:Anton Webern

“I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.”

Ifs Men Mind Made Play Running Lasts Found Half Nice Player Minutes Football Huge Terrible Beats Negative Tonight Concerts Fifteen Liverpool Streaks Barcelona Nice Man

Author:Eamon

“My fans -- when I see them somewhere, outside my concerts -- I get that, that vibe. They're really supporting my projects and everything, because it's a first time that a Turkish singer is, you know, able to express himself out of Turkey.”

Knows Firsts Able Fans Projects First Time Singers Concerts Turkeys Turkish

Author:Tarkan

“I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.”

Giving Feels Faces Music Audience Strange Musician Breaths Curious Dumb Concerts Glances Intimidating Paralyzed

Author:Frederic Chopin

“Why do we idolise Christian singers and speakers? We go from glorifying musicians in the world to glorifying Christian musicians. It's all idolatry!Satan is getting a great victory as we seem to worship these ministers on tapes and records and clammer to get their autographs in churches and concert halls from coast to coast.”

World Seems Christian Church Records Victory Worship Musician Singers Ministers Satan Halls Concerts Speakers Tape Coast Idolatry Autographs Great Victory

Author:Keith Green

“It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.”

Ifs Ends Hard Done Shows Three Hours Comedy Minutes Six Seven Interviews The End Of The Day Tonight Concerts

Author:Howie Mandel

“It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.”

Ends Song Strong Numbers Atheism Rocks Building Standards Positive Atheism Opening Concerts Rock And Roll Entrances Building Up

Author:Marjoe Gortner

“It's really a lot of fun to see that this music can actually survive, that it can be concert music. My solo shows are already going along that path. You have the freedom to basically push to party, or you can tell a story from nothing with soundscapes, moving images, to a real party mood. At some concerts, people get out of their seats and start dancing after a while.”

People Real Stories Shows Moving Fun Party Path Dancing Mood Seats Concerts Solo

Author:Pantha du Prince

“I literally wouldn't have dreamed of it in a million years that I'm going to be standing there with George (Strait) and Garth and Kenny (Chesney) and Reba (McEntire) and Brooks & Dunn. I don't really have any clue what I'm actually doing with those people because I feel like I'm still just getting started and I've seen them all in concert and they're all my heroes.”

People Feels Years Stills Millions Hero Standing Concerts Clue Brooks My Hero Standing There Getting Started Kenny

Author:Miranda Lambert

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