Large Venues Quotes

Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.

I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do.

I've been to two stadium gigs in my life. One was James Brown and the other was Pink Floyd. They both sounded the same. I couldn't tell the difference between James Brown and Pink Floyd. I've never liked stadiums.

Playing in arenas, that's very non-personal with the crowd.

You know, songs like 'Rock'n Me' were actually written to be played in large... for a hundred thousand people kind of gatherings. And a lot of what came out on 'Fly Like an Eagle' and 'Book of Dreams' was music that was put together to be played in big, big venues with big light shows.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

We're doing 3,000 seaters before that we never played anything more than 1,000.

It's always nice to go and play the big teams at the big stadiums.

You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

I used to go to fights in Japan, mega shows at soccer stadiums. They would have all kinds of martial arts fights in one night.

To be honest, I don't really like arenas. It's not easy to make the sound good, or to perform in them.

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.

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.