Music Venue Quotes

Sometimes if you're in the studio for a very long time, you want to get out and play live shows and vice versa.

My first concert was Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey.

I bought a bar because we got banned from playing everywhere else. We were too nuts, and everyone was scared of us. It was Des Moines, Iowa, remember.

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

I played the Holiday Motel on the circle in 1970. I know the Jersey Shore.

I got my start in small dive bars in New Orleans.

We toured with Deep Purple a number of times.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

I enjoyed the idea of going and playing live. My beef was always with Wings that we never played live enough.

I love playing at Madison Square Garden.

When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing for 10 people in a 250 people capacity venue. The promoter wanted to book me because he liked my music. I played a couple of songs that made people dance. To me, that rush has always stayed the same.

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

There's no doubt arena shows are exciting, but you don't get that up close and personal kind of vibe, and that's what rock n' roll is all about for me.

We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

I have very fond memories of Basil's Bar. It was an extraordinary place. You would go for a drink and it would be empty except for the bar bore, which was David Bowie.

If you're interested in any artist, go see them live. I always say that you should go see an artist live. That's an experience that only you and the people in the room can say that they have.

I'm never going to sing the words, 'I want to shut down the club,' never, ever.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties.

My first concert - maybe it was 1979 - was a blur. I'm not sure whether it was Blue Oyster Cult/Cheap Trick/Pat Travers at San Jose Civic Auditorium or The Police/The Knack/Robert Johnson at Berkeley's Zellerbach Auditorium.

We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.