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“Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them.”

People Thinking World Made Stills Important Risk Listening Paid Albums Enormous Rhythm Concerts Aunt Fuse Rhythm And Blues

Author:Joan Baez

“George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book.”

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Author:Elton John

“I'm less interested in uniqueness than in goodness. I see so many concerts where the program notes are more interesting than the music. I remember talking to one composer who went through the most complicated mathematical algorithm to generate some material from scratch. It took weeks and weeks, and he came up with a C major chord. For me, honesty is more interesting than originality.”

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Author:Anna Meredith

“I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.”

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Author:Tom Petty

“There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.”

Want Desire Perfection Absolutes Concerts Deliberate Fatigue

Author:Lisa Gerrard

“I felt that people would criticize everything. I was so scared about playing Paris. I was very much aware that the greatest concerts my father and mother had done were there. I was sure people would be very tough.”

People Done Would Be Mother Father Felt Tough Scared Paris Criticize Concerts

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“To me, there's a difference between going to a concert and getting a recording. It's almost like a different release. The physical album itself is the more meaningful one for me, but I don't want to tell people how to listen to music.”

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Author:Tristan Perich

“I've never been drawn to concert DVDs because they take away the part of the equation that's most important to seeing a live show: getting jostled around and feeling the energy in the room. I definitely didn't want to make one of those.”

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Author:Feist

“Every once in a while I'll find a new way of playing something, it will suggest itself. But generally speaking, there's a set sonic potential, and that's in concert with a set instrumental technique.”

Way Technique Concerts New Ways

Author:Z'EV

“Memories were in my mind during nearly all the concerts I've done, and I realized the deep connection to my childhood, when I went out in the morning and the only thing my mom said was, "Come back before dark." What trust and what freedom!”

Mind Said Done Memories Dark Morning Childhood Mom Connections My Mom I Realized Concerts Deep Connections

Author:Volker Bertelmann

“I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!”

Sometimes Shows Surprise Piano Concerts Surprising Surprise Me

Author:Volker Bertelmann

“I can't say that electronic gear is restrictive. I think it is a challenge to play with electronic gear, and I regularly [perform] concerts with guys who are processing sound.”

Thinking I Can Play Guy Sound Challenges Concerts Gears Processing

Author:Volker Bertelmann

“There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.”

People World Stills Song Ready Happenings Grateful Injustice Concerts So Grateful

Author:Mavis Staples

“My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.”

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Author:Prefuse 73

“My favourite song of Elton's is... it's a tricky one for me. I'm a proper fan and I've probably seen him in concert about a dozen times before I even met him. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, which isn't in this film... but whenever I see him, I always tell him that Passengers is my favourite song because it's one of his least auspicious ones.”

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Author:Matt Lucas

“I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs.”

People Hip Hop Hips Hops Concerts Sweat

Author:T. J. Miller

“Often times at a concert, I just close my eyes. Music is very transportive and visual for me like that.”

Eye Music Is Visuals Concerts

Author:Gotye

“Most women can't handle the reality of what comes with being with me. It takes a very secure woman to be backstage at a concert hearing 15,000 females going crazy.”

Reality Crazy Female Hearing Handle Secure Concerts Going Crazy

Author:Tyrese Gibson

“I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.”

People Play Guitar Mess Halls Concerts

Author:Norah Jones

“Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a reflection of the community. I actually saw my first rock concert on the altar of that church [St. Stephen's].”

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Author:Ian MacKaye

“I love seeing young girls and their parents and grandparents at my concerts all loving the music from Grease when I perform those songs (and yes, I do perform a bunch of them!).”

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Author:Olivia Newton-John

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Nick Kroll

“Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz fan. Even more than concerts, a lot of my high school time was spent going to jazz clubs in the city.”

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Author:Nick Kroll

“True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.”

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Author:Mark Hoppus

“The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust in the Vatican, going to the synagogue in Vatican, and that happens in Protestant service as well. That doesn't mean that anti-Semitism disappear, but it is on certain level that Jews all the time, or with Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, meeting all the time, studying together, signing petitions for all kinds of causes.”

“I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts and readings. We did 'Damn Yankees' together and then we did 'Xanadu.' Jane did all the workshops of 'Xanadu' before it moved to Broadway. She's hysterical and our voices blended. We had a similar sensibility.”

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Author:Cheyenne Jackson

“I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean violin. My goal was to be a famous concert artist some day.”

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Author:Gretchen Carlson

“So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.”

People Kind Mean Concerts Hostile Oldies

Author:George Saunders

“I think it's important that we do it [defeat ISIS] in concert with other nations in Europe, the Middle East, elsewhere if necessary. And that means you've got to work with people. You don't insult them. You don't insult their religion. And it means we have to see our entire country, all of the people in it, as part of our first line of defense.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I think that it was really rock-and-roll stars, women who were breaking boundaries with their bodies and their voices and their beings and their music. I spent a lot of time at concerts,just watching women rock out. They expressed so much of what I believed could be possible.”

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Author:Eve Ensler

“You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.”

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Author:William McDonough

“I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not gonna release a song or put it on an album or play it in concert unless it really feels like me.”

Feels Writing I Can Play Song Albums Like Me Feel Good Release Concerts

Author:Brett Dennen

“I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.”

Remember Guy Song Race Special Concerts Wow Bob This Guy Remember When Hungary Marley

Author:Usain Bolt

“I've been to two concerts in the last 10 years.Bob Seger and the Eagles.”

Years Two Lasts Concerts Bob Eagles

Author:Toby Keith

“So what's happening with the audio/visuality, for the first time we are doing the music - the people who would come to the concert love the music - they loved him and loved his music - for the first time in concert it's not only the music. Now it's time to know the man. We know the music, but what was the man like?”

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Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.

“Tony Bennett is still giving concerts, still singing. It's keeping him alive. He's in his late 80s now and he keeps going and going. I maintain, God bless him, it's this devotion to duty and working and being in front his audience.”

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Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.

“My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.”

Different Names Views Party Opinion Share Musician China Concerts Banned

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy, who is touring and doing concerts. She's very young and has a one-night fling with an Irish rocker, played Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who is also a really talented musician.”

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Author:Keri Russell

“Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.”

Energy Concerts Overwhelming Live Concerts

Author:Victoria Justice

“[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.”

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Author:Victoria Justice

“Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, through our own abandoned story drafts. After writing twenty pages about a harmonious family picnic, say, or a well-received rock concert, we discover that a story without a complication flounders, no matter how lovely the prose. A story needs a point of departure, a place from which the character can discover something, transform himself, realize a truth, reject a truth, right a wrong, make a mistake, come to terms.”

“The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.”

Whole Noise Concerts Annoying

Author:Jacques Monod

“I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.”

Trying Productions Concerts Choreographers

Author:Lucinda Childs

“I'd rather have people who are enthusiastic about what I'm doing than like, "Well, I thought we were going to a Miley Cyrus concert and now it's a strip show!"”

People Wells Shows Concerts Enthusiastic Miley

Author:Miley Cyrus

“[Brian Hyland autograph] was what got me started on going to concerts, because from then on, I was at every concert for everybody.”

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Author:Cassandra Peterson

“One of my interests is to understand what constitutes the vibe of a place and what makes one concert different from another.”

Different Interest Concerts

Author:Justin Adams

“I have a lot of experience in playing all sorts of venues. And one of my interests is to understand what constitutes the vibe of a place and what makes one concert different from another. You can't fully measure or calculate these things, yet they are absolutely evident once you're on stage.”

Different Interest Stage Concerts Evident Venues

Author:Justin Adams

“You have to have a certain kind of celebrity to pull something that big together, but I had a whole thing called The Spirit of Man that I wanted to do worldwide concerts in celebration for the spirit of man. So, as I move forward, that would be the kind of thing that I have.”

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Author:Robert Davi

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