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Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don't like something, they let you know - with silence.

I'm obsessed with 'Hamilton.' I've seen it, like, three times, and if I could get a weekly pass, I would.

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

I'm, in general, an advocate of moderate ticket prices.

You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.

I don't enjoy the theatre. I don't go. Don't like going in the back door or the front.

I used to watch Babe Ruth for 50 cents. Now, baseball tickets are $400!

A friend is someone who supports you. And these people are buying tickets at outrageous ticket prices. If that ain't support, I don't know what is.

In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.

I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

I think we disregard fans too much. They drive our sport. The money has gotten so big that it has become a corporate league other than the nosebleed seats.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

I think, in accepting the amount of money that athletes make, I think that fans accept that now. It's the nature of the beast; that's the way it is, so they understand it. All, I think, fans have changed - because the price of tickets has gone up so much - that they feel a certain sense of entitlement when they go to a game.

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.

I applaud anyone who comes to a football game, given the finances - it's not an easy thing to do.

Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.