Live Music Events Quotes

Ultimately, people do want to buy merch and tickets to support their favorite bands, but they don't want to feel like it's the only thing going on.

If we have good opportunities to perform in the U.S., Europe, or South America, we are more than glad to go and perform there.

Compared to EDM, I feel like there are a lot of girls at my shows.

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

When you play a gig in Poland or Australia, or you play a gig in Toledo, they all clap at the same parts of the show. They're clapping for the solos in the exact same way.

As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

When a fan buys a ticket, we learn an enormous amount about them: What bands they like, where they live, how much they are willing to spend. Someday, a fan will be sitting in a bar and his cellphone will text message 'Sonic Youth are playing tonight. Do you want to go?' He'll buy his ticket over the phone and walk to the concert.

The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.

A lot of girls come to our shows, and a lot of them are freaking adorable and want to learn how to play guitar.

If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.

I love music, my followers love music, and I know LiveXLive is the ultimate home for the live music experience. We're going to bring great comedy and great music together like no one else is doing, and we'll have incredible access and resources to do it.

When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.

There are a lot of bands who would get really big in Fort Worth and play shows on a Friday night that everybody would come out to. But I've never been really big in my hometown. My shows would have 10 or 15 people at them.

I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.

When I was a teen, or like 18 to early 20s, I used to go to festivals all the time. I'd save all my money.

I get kind of nervous in crowds, so a musical festival would never be something I would go to, unless I was playing.

I just chased bands all over the country. The biggest one I saw was Jimi Hendrix.