#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

And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#history #music #sociology #music

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

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is. ↗

— Shaun Cassidy

#connection #first #poster #record #someone

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in. ↗

— Theodor Reik

#back #bang #behave #being #come

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto. ↗

— Lope de Vega

#harmony #love #love is #pure #pure love

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway. ↗

— Gary Cole

#concerts #environment #going #i #i love

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here? ↗

— John Lennon

#concert #did #eye #get #here

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour. ↗

— Wanda Jackson

#asked #come #concert #first #i

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#concert #done #fact #festival #i