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In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
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.
I feel I'm most successful when I'm playing a concert, and it doesn't necessarily seem like I'm playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.
Performing my father's songs at the Led Zeppelin O2 reunion concert in 2007 was an honor that I will forever remember as one of the most bittersweet, yet greatest nights of my life.
Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.
Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.
To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.
Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
In the studio, you can redo things. In concert, you only have one shot at it, so you have to try to be as perfect as possible.
I remember being really, really young and watching Prince and Michael Jackson concert DVDs. One of my favorites is Prince's 'Rave Un2 The Year 2000.'
I try to change my concert program every couple of years - hopefully to keep my listeners interested.
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.
I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.
You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.
I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.
It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert.
Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.
When I see a cutie in front at a concert, I say, 'Ohhh, you're so cute! What's your name?' But I wouldn't do that in real life.
You go into the venues, and there's a huge drop-off rate in the merch lines. People don't want to miss parts of the concert.
The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.
I always have to poop right before I do a concert. I don't feel nervous, but I think that must be my body reacting.
I saw a concert with Nena singing '99 Red Balloons' on TV and I said, 'I will also go onstage and sing.'
Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.
The worst thing for me when I go to a concert is a whole bunch of ballads. You get bored.
Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn't necessarily on your set list.
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.
I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
I know what it's like to go to a concert, wait to hear your favourite song - and then they don't play it!
Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.
I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.
My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.
I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.
Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.
To be a great concert marketer, we are shifting our focus from traditional media to online and mobile as direct ways to reach consumers.
When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.
Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.
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.
The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.
When I play 'Newhart' in concert, it always gets a hand, right from the very beginning. To me, 'Newhart' is a hit.
I grew up in a musical environment. My parents played music and had it playing on the radio. They brought me to a concert at the age of 5, the same age I started violin lessons.
You obviously learn each time you go on tour, with each concert, with each song, from all your mistakes. But everything we did was authentic.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
Of course, we also have to play in concert halls. This is our dream when you are a musician - to play in a good, comfortable hall with a wonderful acoustic.
The concert industry lags dramatically behind the great hospitality businesses out there, whether they're theme parks or hotels or sporting events.
We spend a great deal of time getting the fan to buy the ticket. Why shouldn't it be: 'Buy the concert ticket and bundle in the t-shirt, or join the fan club?'