Top 204 Venues Quotes & Sayings

So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.

I'm a fan of small venues that showcase emerging talent in the most organic way.

It's fun playing small venues.

I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

Back in the early 1980s when rappers couldn't perform in the fancy venues because the police were too racist and scared, it was the punk venues letting them in to perform.

If you're big in America, you can go to Australia and automatically, the first time you'll be there, you can sell out huge venues.

There are so many good venues in Chicago.

When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.

I think, in a lot of ways, it's easier to play a smaller room. You can exploit the quieter dynamics you would shy away from in larger venues.

Shooting of course has certain challenges, especially in terms of safety aspects to be sorted and venues are far away from the scene of action.

I could do another tour, make a record that's very similar, do similar venues. Or I could make a different record, do different venues, and grow. It's exciting to take it to new places, but it's never been my intent to be the biggest thing in the world. That's not what my drive is. I want to make what I want to make, and make a living off it.

I hope 'Chess' will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics.

My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.

I like the dirty venues better - Brixton Jams is like home.

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

Go for the girl who can eat a proper meal. If she's passionate about food, you'll most likely be fortunate in other venues.

Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear.

I love the intimacy of small venues, I really do, I like that look that people have that they feel like they're special and they can hear and they can see the band as well.

I really like to do small venues. They're more intimate.

I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me.

Playing in London in 1979 was exciting: it was at the start of new wave, the transition period after punk, and there were a lot of radical, fashionable young people on the streets and in the venues.

I sent a lot of the e-mails out to venues and tried to get shows and tried to get people interested in it. It can be a tough thing, because you know these people at venues are getting e-mails like that every day, but I think just my experience in working in running a radio station.

I've asked to go back into theaters and smaller venues because to me, in smaller venues I can really demonstrate my commitment to quality. Theaters are great containers for music.

We used to wrestle every night, 385 times a year. For ten years. 365 days. Never had any holidays off, ever. Holidays were always two-day venues. Two event venues. Afternoon and night.

There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.

In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.

The crowd in big venues can really make or crush players.

Madison Square Garden is one of the best fighting venues in the world.

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

It never bothers me playing huge venues; it's not personal, is it?

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

I'm not Kathy Griffin. I can't do 1200 seat venues. I need 300, 400 something like that.

You really need to travel to other major-league venues to understand what you're missing.

I'm just happy that a couple folks still know my name, and that I'm still able to sell out venues when I perform live.

One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.

Critics for established venues are vetted by editors; they usually demonstrate a certain objectivity; and they come with known backgrounds and specialized knowledge.

With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.

You go into the venues, and there's a huge drop-off rate in the merch lines. People don't want to miss parts of the concert.

I've played Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach several times, but I personally don't enjoy those larger venues. I much prefer theater or a performance space.

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.

I'm not as much a fan of the venues as I am the comics who inhabit them. I don't care if it's a bomb shelter, a bus, or a theater, if I'm watching somebody who makes me laugh, I'm down.

In L.A., we played rock venues because we had a band, which hip-hop venues couldn't accommodate. And within that, we created a show which we could put on in front of anybody.

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

We've had to be escorted out of venues, things like that. We get security guards now.

I have really got into watching the unsigned bands. They play mad venues like the Sugarmill in Stoke and all sorts of underground, grimy places.

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

There is always going to be competition from other countries and different venues who want to host a race, but the British GP is a must have.

We're thrilled to play an offbeat place. Our music fits with it. I love playing unusual venues.

I've gotten to play some cool venues, like at an aquarium in La Jolla, California.

I really like intimate venues because it feels like everyone in the audience is in on all our inside jokes.

As far as dream venues, I've played all the venues I'd love to play.

It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.

British boxing fans are amazing, and the O2 is one of the best venues in the world.

We'll always play different venues. We'll play small clubs or stadiums or things in between.