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And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

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.

One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

The bandstand is a sacred place.

Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

In 2012 the best venue I played was Union Chapel in London. It's a beautiful room, the sound is exceptional, and they treated us very well.

My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

Glasgow Barrowlands is the greatest concert venue in the world.

One day I'm going to open up a club or a concert venue where it's all ages and really fun. That'd be awesome.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

I never really went to any concerts that I wasn't in.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

Playing in arenas, that's very non-personal with the crowd.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

I went to see Alison Krauss and Union Station at Disney Hall and I would say it was one of the most astonishing sonic experiences I have had. It's an enormous room that's acoustically perfect. My interpretation of receiving music as a layman is that the way the music kind of settled on me in that room was perfection.

I love playing the Fillmore. I love the walk from the hotel and climbing up those old, iron stairs that lead to the stage. I imagine Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and all those other great bands climbing those same stairs.

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.

It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.