#concert

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american idol #believe #children #concerts #counterparts

At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa. Bald men definitely have an edge. ↗

— Christine Lavin

#best #concert #crown #definitely #edge

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#lady-gaga #music #stage #music

Raw, alive and honest to the point of disgusting it's listener, Placebo set out to inspire mystery and confusion. Admitting to relishing groups who could make their audience vomit with the sheer intensity of their musical vibrations, Brian clearly knew how to make an impact. Discussing sonic overload with unsettling enthusiasm, he claimed "Some frequencies can make you physically ill or make your bowels loose. The Swans used to do it. By the end of gigs people would vomit because the frequencies were so nasty. ↗

— Chloe Govan

#concerts #music-concerts #placebo #rock-music #inspirational

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#bands #biggest #concerts #coolest #coolest thing

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#carnegie #carnegie hall #concert #first #hall

I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#away #because #become #concerts #get

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find. ↗

— Norman Granz

#biggest #concerts #could #doing #find

I'm obsessed with concerts. ↗

— Aaron Paul

#i #obsessed

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#concert pianist #dead #dead end #death #end