Concert Venue Quotes

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old.

Our audiences were always the most bizarre mix. You'd have a thousand screaming girls in the front of the stage and then ten very serious rock critics in the back of the room going, 'Uh-huh, I think we understand this.'

Give metal a chance!

At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.

I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.

The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.

We played an old U-Boat factory in East Germany once and that was massive - 35,000 people.

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

Now is the time to get out there and give people a taste of 'Mondo Cozmo.'

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees.

When we went to Judas Priest backstage, Mr. Rob Halford told us that they were waiting to see us. We've met Mr. Kirk Hammett of Metallica several times, and he is extremely kind to us. No one gives us mean looks, and we are so happy that Babymetal is welcomed warmly.

So many times I've gone to hear bands and thought, 'Oh, I can't wait to be on that stage.'

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.

The great thing about Santa Monica civic auditorium was it was a place you could ride your bike to. In this case, my dad dropped me and my friends off, and we'd go see Ronnie James Dio or Jean-Luc Ponty or Weather Report or the Pretenders.

The first show I did with Coldplay was really scary.

It was sort of in the jam-band era and it was at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester [New York], right where I grew up. I actually went back there a couple years ago when I was on tour for Kroll Show. I performed at that theater, which was really cool to go back to the first place I'd gone to a concert.

We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

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.

Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

I've been to Vector Arena, and I've seen it. I've stood in the middle and just appreciated the space, appreciated the volume of the place.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.