Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people.
As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.
Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.
We try really hard to avoid those conventional experiences, these adrenaline rush, anger, competition, violence. We intentionally avoid that. We try to create a game that's serene and tranquil and filled with love.
The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.
I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.
The best time to go to Disney World, if you want to avoid huge crowds, is 1962.
I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.
We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.
I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and try to avoid things that I "should" be doing, and stay true to that.
If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.
I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?
Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.