Top 1200 Music Festival Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.

Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.

Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into work units that need to be completed. You gotta turn it into a treatment, a script, a grant application, a bunch of forms to be filled out, a shooting schedule, casting sessions, auditions, shooting, editing, music compositions, the film festival circuit, interviews even. And by the time you've finished the process you're so sick and tired by something that was once very precious to you that you're done with it.

I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You can look at the music in several different ways. It's music for everybody.

I spend Diwali in Delhi because it's such a big festival.

We had to do something at [a festival in Washington, D.C.]. I remember Chris Martin, by then we all knew him, there were certain people who were regulars. He would say, "Oh, my God, you guys, I think I'm going to throw up." It was a daytime festival, and they went on right after some really heavy band, and he was saying, "I don't think I can do this. I think I'm going to throw up." He was in the bathroom thinking he was going to be sick. He said, "They're going to hate us." In fact, they hated them. They hated Coldplay - did not go over well. His instincts were correct.

To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel.

I don't ever want to play a festival again, period.

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

Cannes is the largest festival of world cinema.

In the U.S., we were slow to evolve and build a festival capability.

I am a Muslim, but my favourite festival is Holi, so that is how it is.

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

I really love the festival circuit.

Sometimes success is just limited to festival circuit.

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!

All festival food is expensive.

To come out here and play on Woodstock grounds, first year ever headlining on the main stage there's nothing more iconic. [Mysteryland] is one of those festivals that holds down the legacy of dance music it's been around for so many years. It's been part of what we do for so long. It kinda makes sense to bring the tradition over here to America. The festival grounds of Woodstock, that's pretty epic.

I was four days old when I went to my first bluegrass festival.

The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.

I love the outdoor festival feeling.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

I'd never been to a festival till I played one.

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

It's not easy putting on a festival, there's a lot of moving parts.

Usually, when I'm at a festival with a movie that I'm in, I'm in and out in 24 hours.

The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE.

You know, we've had some pretty rough festival stages.

I'm honored with the success of 'Omerta' at the Toronto Film Festival.

I met Xavier Rudd at a surf festival in England.

My first play was 'A Month in the Country' at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

Every film you see at a festival teaches you something.

As for Glastonbury, it's the biggest festival there is in Britain, and I'm very pleased to be asked to do it.

Hildegard von Bingen conveys spiritual ecstasy, if we're talking of Western music. What bothers me about Western music is that it doesn't have an esoteric dimension in the way the music of the East has, whether it be Byzantine chant, the music of the Sufis, or Hindu music.

Burning Man is a crowning achievement of freedom in festival culture.

The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it.

G.O.O.D. Music is on top because G.O.O.D. Music is the culture. When you think of, you know, just every aspect from music, influence, fashion, art level. If it's not G.O.O.D Music, then it's somebody who was influenced heavily by G.O.O.D. Music.

The first time I came to the Comedy Festival some nutcase shot a bunch of people in Tasmania. I thought, 'Oh, that's just Tasmania.' The second time I came, some nut shot up Columbine High School. Now I'm here again, and another nut just shot up a high school in Minnesota. If you can't see the connection between me playing the Comedy Festival and mass murder, you're no good at conspiracy theories.

Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.

My family used to put on a small folk festival.

When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour.

When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.

I've done the Hoboken Comedy Festival. It's cool.

Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count -- / Festival of the Souls.

I really like intimate venues because it feels like everyone in the audience is in on all our inside jokes. We could say things and people will catch them. That couldn't happen at a festival because nobody would catch it. I also like that in a smaller space people can be talking to each other and listening to the music; they don't have to be watching you the whole time.

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.