Concert Quotes

1. "Je devrais avoir mon enfer pour la colère, mon enfer pour l'orgueil, - et l'enfer de la caresse; un concert d'enfers."
Author: Arthur Rimbaud

2. "Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts."
Author: Bernie Worrell

3. "My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think."
Author: Birdy

4. "Café Flore is packed, shimmering, every table filled. Bentley notices this with a grim satisfaction but Bentley feels lost. He's still haunted by the movie Grease and obsessed with legs that he always felt were too skinny though no one else did and it never hampered his modeling career and he's still not over a boy he met at a Styx concert in 1979 in a stadium somewhere in the Midwest, outside a town he has not been back to since he left it at eighteen, and that boy's name was Cal, who pretended to be straight even though he initially fell for Bentley's looks but Cal knew Bentley was emotionally crippled and the fact that Bentley didn't believe in heaven didn't make him more endearing so Cal drifted off and inevitably became head of programming at HBO for a year or two. Bentley sits down, already miked, and lights a cigarette. Next to them Japanese tourists study maps, occasionally snap photos. This is the establishing shot."
Author: Bret Easton Ellis

5. "We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums."
Author: Bruce Johnston

6. "I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!"
Author: Cy Coleman

7. "Alguém que pense que «O dinheiro não dá felicidade» é concerteza porque o tem em grande quantidade."
Author: David Mitchell

8. "Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra."
Author: David Ogden Stiers

9. "It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'."
Author: Denis Dutton

10. "And, echoing Jerott, ‘So why in hell have you come?' Philippa's gaze, bright and owlish and obstinate, held his to the end. ‘To look after the baby,' she answered. And disconcertingly, after a second's blank pause, Francis Crawford flung back his damp head and laughed."
Author: Dorothy Dunnett

11. "But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared."
Author: Ed O'Brien

12. "In the midst of this utopia, which only your fellow lone voyagers would perceive, you used to transgress society's rules unknowingly, and no one would hold you accountable for it. You would mistakenly enter private residences, go to concerts to which you had not been invited, eat at community banquets where you could only guess the community's identity when they started giving speeches. Had you behaved like this in your own country, you would have been taken for a liar or a fool. But the improbable ways of a foreigner are accepted. Far from your home, you used to taste the pleasure of being mad without being alienated, of being an imbecile without renouncing your intelligence, of being an impostor without culpability."
Author: Édouard Levé

13. "I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view."
Author: Elizabeth George

14. "I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts."
Author: Fran Drescher

15. "I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it's a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the ceremony, after a few years, the whole deal turns into a concert they wouldn't have dreamed of attending."
Author: Frederick Barthelme

16. "Concert doesn't mean standing up like a target in front of thousand of strangers. It means coming together. I means harmony."
Author: Gayle Forman

17. "A pesar de todo, era casi un placer sufrir estos tormentos. Llevaba yo tanto tiempo arrastrándome ciego e insensible por la vida, y mi corazón había callado ya tan largamente, empobreciéndose confinado en un ángulo oscuro, que hasta aquellos reproches y aquel horror que contraían mi alma eran los bienvenidos. Era, por fin, un sentimiento, un sentimiento que ardía en llamas y en el que latía un corazón. Desconcertado, sentía en medio de mi atroz miseria algo como una liberación y esa nueva primavera."
Author: Hermann Hesse

18. "When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs."
Author: Holly Near

19. "As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release."
Author: Jackson Browne

20. "...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; Cézannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration."
Author: James Agee

21. "(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People."
Author: James Joyce

22. "I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure."
Author: Jared Leto

23. "Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius."
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides

24. "Frankly, I was shocked to hear they allowed KISS to play here. Usually, they have gospel performers in places like this. You know, Varmint, there are other religious communities like this scattered around the country. The Mennonites. The Amish. The Moonies. They would never host a KISS concert. Not in a million years. But times are changing. We could be playing for the Mormons soon. In Salt Lake City."
Author: John Elder Robison

25. "The Top Ten Reasons Why Virgin Val Sucks10. She called me a one-hit-wonder.9. She doesn't appreciate the endearing nickname I gave her.8. She makes me write stupid blogs about her at four in the morning.7. She's encouraging people not to have sex.6. She blew me off when I asked her out.5. She has a crush on a douche bag.4. She won't answer any of my calls.3. She's such a tease with her look-but-don't-touch policy.2. I played a whole effing concert just for her and she didn't come even though she told me she would. (You're such a liar!)And the #1 reason why Virgin Val sucks?I still want her anyway."
Author: Kelly Oram

26. "The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it."
Author: Kevin Hearne

27. "I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening."
Author: Kitty Carlisle

28. "It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra."
Author: Leila Josefowicz

29. "We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby."
Author: Liane Moriarty

30. "For a second, I stop fighting and think about what he's asking me. Did I live? I made a best friend. Lost another. Cried. Laughed. Lost my virginity. Gained a piece of magic, gave it away. Possibly changed a man's destiny. Drank beer. Slept in cheap motels. Got pissed off. Laughed some more. Escaped from the police and bounty hunters. Watched the sun set over the ocean. Had a soda with my sister. Saw my mom and dad as they are. Understood music. Had sex again, and it was pretty mind-blowing. Not that I'm keeping score. Okay, I'm keeping score. Played the bass. Went to a concert. Wandered around New Orleans. Freed the snow globes. Saved the universe."
Author: Libba Bray

31. "I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
Author: Luc Ferrari

32. "Then the concerts came to an end, the weather turned bad and my girls left Balbec, not all at once, as the swallows leave, but within the same week."
Author: Marcel Proust

33. "It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character."
Author: Michelle Richmond

34. "Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world."
Author: Nina Simone

35. "I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there."
Author: Petra Nemcova

36. "I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together."
Author: Phylicia Rashad

37. "Pedro, Pedro, é do teu silêncio que eu preciso agora, levante as viseiras, passeie os olhos, solte-lhes as rédeas, mas contenha a força e o recato da família, e o ímpeto áspero da tua língua, pois só no teu silêncio úmido, só nesse concerto esquivo é que reconstituo, por isso molhe os lábios, molhe a boca, molhe os teus dentes cariados, e a sonda que desce para o estômago, encha essa bolsa de couro apertada pelo teu cinto, deixe que o vinho vaze pelos teus poros, só assim é que se cultua o obsceno"
Author: Raduan Nassar

38. "Truth is so often disconcerting."
Author: Rafael Sabatini

39. "Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at."
Author: Robin Hobb

40. "I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life."
Author: Rodney Atkins

41. "Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation."
Author: Roma Downey

42. "When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own."
Author: Ronnie Spector

43. "I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing."
Author: Roscoe Mitchell

44. "I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous."
Author: Shalom Harlow

45. "Learning how to play an instrument has always been near the top of my to-do list, but what are the chances now? There's little downtime with a column and a two-year-old, and after reading Goldilocks and the three Bears and going through half a bottle of wine with dinner on an average evening, imagining a day when I join Nathaniel on the Elgar Cello Concerto is not a vision but a hallucination. I'm at the point where the things on your to-do list get transferred to a should-have-done list, and one reason I write a column is for the privilege of vicariously sampling other worlds, dropping in with my passport, my notebook and my curiosity."
Author: Steve Lopez

46. "When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record."
Author: Teddy Wilson

47. "In the years that I've seen concerts, when I've paid to see somebody I want to see, there would be a certain amount of songs I'd want to hear. So whether it's stuff I want to play every night or not - or stuff I've been playing for years or stuff you get tired of playing - you have to play what people pay for and make it fair for them."
Author: Toby Keith

48. "Before the war Sofya Levinton had once said to Yevgenia Nikolaevna Shaposhnikova, 'If one man is fated to be killed by another, it would be interesting to trace the gradual convergence of their paths. At the start they might be miles away from one another – I might be in Pamir picking alpine roses and clicking my camera, while this other man, my death, might be eight thousand miles away, fishing for ruff in a little stream after school. I might be getting ready to go to a concert and he might be at the railway station buying a ticket to go and visit his mother-in-law – and yet eventually we are bound to meet, we can't avoid it..."
Author: Vasily Grossman

49. "But no life was without it's strain & strife, not if it was fully lived. Opening up to experience, even the good ones like trust & love, was to open yourself up to the pain. I suppose the key was to not compound matters by making the rest of it unnecessarily hard. My need for control had certainly done that in the past. So I made a promise to myself in that moment. I would make a concerted effort to reach for what was soft & good in this world. I'd find a place to settle into, and hold still so that this world's good and soft could reach back & touch me as well."
Author: Vicki Pettersson

50. "Its like reproaching someone who has no ear for music because he's bored at a symphony concert. Is it fair to blame me because you ascribed to me qualities that I hadn't got? I never tried to deceive you by pretending I was anything I wasn't. I was just pretty and gay. You don't ask for a pearl necklace or a sable coat at a booth in a fair; you ask for a tin trumpet and a toy balloon."
Author: W. Somerset Maugham

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