Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.
failure is costly, both to society and to individuals. Pretending that all people are equal in their abilities will not change the fact that a person with an average IQ is unlikely to become a theoretical physicist, or the fact that a person with a l...
Man is more attractive when left to the imagination.
I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.
Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just . It's a personal diary. An uncensored confession in the dead of night. A baring of the soul. Take a modern example. Florence and the Machine?...
Yehuda: [introducing Wladek] Majorek, this is the greatest pianist in Poland, maybe the whole world.
And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.
There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.
I have been thinking about what might happen if they installed clappers to turn on and off the lights in a concert hall. Maybe they could spare the cost of hiring some people for the next rock concert.
Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.
Confidence is not a wilted plant that can be brought back to life with a bit of water. It is a highly flammable object. Doubt sets it aflame and destroys it irreparably.
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld: What is your name? So I can listen for you. Wladyslaw Szpilman: My name is Szpilman. Captain Wilm Hosenfeld: Spielmann? That is a good name, for a pianist.
Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.
You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.
I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.
