Venue Management Quotes

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

I'm honored and excited to be chosen to lead MLSE, a world-class sports and entertainment organization with the major league teams, premier facilities and employee team that rank with the very best across North America and internationally.

We can't say to a Ticketmaster venue that says they want to use a different ticketing platform, 'If you do that, we won't put shows in your building.'

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

You go into the venues, and there's a huge drop-off rate in the merch lines. People don't want to miss parts of the concert.

I think everybody thinks they can have the next $100 million venue. I think there is a bit of arrogance in that.

I was 14, and I played this club that's no longer there because it was poorly managed: the Texas Tea House in Fort Worth.

If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.

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.

And I'd spent 20 years in bars and nightclubs, dealing with promoters and getting ripped off and just everything that comes with all that stuff - paying your dues, I guess.

Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere.

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

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

There's so much you can learn from being on a big tour and so much you can learn from being in the clubs.

Live Nation is one of the most unique, exciting companies in the world and has remained at the forefront of the live entertainment industry by continuing to innovate and bring live entertainment to more fans around the globe.

The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it.