Natalie Prass Quotes

I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.

Young people go to concerts.

We have not had a ton of innovation and marketing in the concert industry, much like the record industry. We have been a fairly old-school business compared to Coca-Cola and the big packaging/marketing companies.

I definitely enjoy doing big festivals and big shows.

I want to know that I am putting 30,000 individuals in seats in arenas. That's my goal.

They have barricades at our gigs - to keep people in. We do most of the songs from 'Scrubs' over 55 minutes.

Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.'

The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it's so big and overwhelming, it's easy to get lost in the crowd.

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

I love the outdoor festival feeling.

The night before 'The Elephant Man' opened, we had a sleepover for 12 kids. Being organized is the key.

Nas is the only person whose concert I been to.

It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast.

While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.

As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.

Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.

It's show business. No show, no business.

It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).

Since my 'Crown of Midnight' tour in 2013, we've had such a rapid jump in audience numbers that we've had to move to bigger venues, cap events, and find new and creative ways to keep the line flowing while still allowing me the chance to chat with each person, which will always be very, very important to me.

Several NBA teams got their best gates every season when they scheduled a doubleheader and booked the Globetrotters and their stooges for the opening game.

I go to concerts about once a month.

It's just really cool to go to countries and play festivals for people who don't really know your band or don't ever get to see it. It's really nice.

I've studied live shows and artists for so long. I got the tour documentaries and all that and watched them. I love a show. I love an artist that can do all of it.

People pay their hard-earned money to come and watch me perform live. That's a blessing.

Now, to be a mainstream act, you have to be firing on all cylinders on so many different platforms. You've got to have a social media voice. You've got to do promo on TV. You've got to tour everywhere.