Irving Azoff Quotes

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

Actually, we've done 75 of these shows and every one of them has sold out. But then we buy all the tickets.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

The history of the ticketing business was about barriers to entry, which kept Ticketmaster protected. That has changed.

I have no problem if you bought a Justin Timberlake ticket and you decide to go sell that ticket to somebody. We would first and foremost want to make sure that the first ticket sold, that the fan has a shot to buy that ticket.

Everyone loves to criticize Ticketmaster, but the real asset of Ticketmaster is that it's the third-largest e-commerce site in America.

Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.

The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

The great thing about TV is that it's so fluid. When you bring in someone for one quick role and they're fantastic, you can bring them back.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

That's the great thing about 'The West Wing:' you really felt like you were in the thick of it.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

The great thing about YouTube is there are no gatekeepers. No one is waiting to tell you if you're good enough. It's just your audience.

A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on. It's also very lyrical, and the great thing about lyrical prose is even when you're not totally sure of the words, you can be swayed by the musicality of it.

Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.