You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It's the hardest thing.

- Aziz Ansari

I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.

- Bette Midler

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

- Brian Wilson

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

A lot of times you go to a concert, and when you leave, you don't know anything more about the act then when you got there.

- Bill Engvall

You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.

- Anthony Daniels

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

- Anna Sui

I think in the future we might see things arrive the way Prince announces a concert where a few days before the show he announces it and tickets just go up. You might see that with movies and other things.

- Andrew Stanton

You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

- Andre Rieu

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.

- Avril Lavigne

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

- Abraham Lincoln

I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'.

- Anne Robinson

Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.

- Andrea Bocelli

I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.

- Andrea Bocelli

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

- Amy Tan

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

- Amy Lee

Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!'

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

- Alan Dershowitz

At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

- Adam Levine

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

- Abraham Lincoln