Marian McPartland Quotes

I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

The videos have given us a younger audience. You know, our audience grew up with us until the videos, and they were beginning to get a little long in the tooth. Then the videos came along, and now we've recaptured the 16-year-old girls. The 16-year-old girls!

We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.

At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.

We are lucky to have a big fan base and that we can support ourselves doing live shows.

I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

I'm lucky that I have people listening to my music, waiting to see me in North America.

People don't buy music anymore; they're stealing it. But you can't steal a live show. There's no way to reproduce a real live show. So I think that when you put a great bill together, that people will come out for it.

When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.

We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.

If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.

I've been a legitimate fan of Keith Urban's for a long time and have been to a bunch of his concerts.

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

I know I'd feel emotional if one of my favorite bands was going out.