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“The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

“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.”

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Author:James Elkins

“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.”

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Author:Frederic Chopin

“Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.”

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Author:Pablo Casals

“your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.”

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Book:Friends and fiddlers

Source: Friends and fiddlers

“If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I am tired before the concert, not afterward.”

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Author:Arthur Rubinstein

“The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.”

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Book:A Philosophical Dictionary

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary

“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

“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

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

“When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.”

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Author:John Zorn

“We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.”

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Author:Rachel Cohn

“They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.”

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Author:Victor Borge

“My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ... he was a master ! - I really heard it. That one guitar sounded like a whole orchestra to me.”

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Author:B. B. King

“A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.”

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Author:Klaus Schulze