Neville Marriner Quotes

I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.

Other than Caroline's in New York, I pretty much haven't done clubs. That was primarily because I always liked the people and audiences at theaters and bars better.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

Young people go to concerts.

I go to concerts about once a month.

Live shows are really big for me. I want to do as many of those as I can.

We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock!

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

How many times do you get to play in Portland in front of how many thousands of people? That's the kind of environment we want to be in.

There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y'know what I mean?

I've walked out in front of Madison Square Garden to 20,000 people, which is amazing, as I can remember working in the O2 arena in Dublin as security for wrestling events.

On stage, you rehearse for five weeks, and it goes out to 300 people. In 'EastEnders,' you get ten minutes to rehearse, and seven million people watch it!

I enjoy having a large audience, but I don't do anything special to attract them.

I love the stage more than the studio.

I love playing at Madison Square Garden.

I really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.

We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.

We'll play somewhere like London, playing to 2,000 people easy, and every time you play with more people, you think, 'You're a rock star,' and it makes you laugh. I guess I am, but I'm also, you know, not.

I did as much theater as I could. I worked at a theme park and a Bible theater and a community theater.

We've gone from venues that hold 500 up to 3,000 on our own, so I guess we're not entirely unknown. But there is a difference between a few thousand people and 20,000.

At concerts I felt demeaned, like a vaudevillian.

I have so many happy memories of Belfast and the shows I played there.

I think our live shows dispelled any misconceptions people had about us. When you come see us live, you know we're anything but a boy band.

We did 300 shows in our first two years.

We used to work with a promoter in Italy who used to book for shows with nine hour drives in between, so we got a new promoter.