A Quote by Sir Mix-a-Lot

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

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Audience Classical Concerts Create Pop Pops

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Sir Mix-a-Lot
American - Musician
Born: August 12, 1963

There has been a huge growth in the audience attending live concerts. It's delightful to see the increase in audience members and I hope to see more demand for live concerts in the years to come.

Tulsi Kumar

When I do things, like, with Josh Grobin, or he has so many fans, and I get people after my concerts, classical concerts, all the time coming back and saying, 'Never heard of you until I heard the song with Josh Grobin.' Then they're now classical music fans, which is something I think we need to reach a wider audience.

Joshua Bell

I go to metal concerts as well as classical concerts, and I love both of them.

Tarja Turunen

As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, but I am also always trying to find out who the voices of our time are. I attend a spectrum of concerts that are close to classical - anything from Wynton Marsalis to Renee Fleming.

Jan Vogler

There is a kind of adventure- and risk-seeking audience in classical contemporary music that is really empowering and part of what draws me to it. The people that come to these concerts are open-minded and curious.

Bryce Dessner

When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.

Neil Tennant

A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.

Meredith Brooks

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Holly Near

I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

Fran Drescher

Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.

Terry Riley

I performed six concerts all over the U.S.S.R. during the time of Gorbachev. The entire audience was Russian. There were no Indians. Period. The audience turned out in large numbers and gave standing ovations to all my songs. They knew each song. That was an amazing experience.

Asha Bhosle

I am always so excited to get to know a new audience. My concerts are very personal experiences.

Audra McDonald

I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.

Laura Benanti

I always tell my audiences not to listen to such artists who play audio CDs at their concerts. Such shows shouldn't be called live shows. People like AR Rahman, Sunidhi Chauhan, and Arijit Singh are the ones who hold true concerts.

Guru Randhawa

I like the audience to be engaged with the numbers I am singing and do not repeat my songs at any of my concerts. There are thousands of songs that I have lent my voice to with so many other singers, so why bore my audience by singing the same songs?