#concerts

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered. ↗

— Charles Rosen

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

— Gary Cole

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I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be. ↗

— Ken Kesey

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If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell. ↗

— Donna Summer

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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

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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

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

— Norman Granz

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Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

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I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

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I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me. ↗

— Andy Gibb

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