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My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It's like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun.
I just try to think of celebrations that suprise people, that people have fun with, and that people enjoy..
Every year I'm doing different projects, concerts, touring, open-air festivals.
What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?
Festivus for the Restivus!
With everyone lounging around, eating sleeping, sunning, pooping, it looks like some weird combat version of an outdoor rock festival.
I see most of my movies at festivals.
When it's your own thing there's a lot more pressure to make it awesome, since these people bought tickets specifically for you. Whereas at the festivals, you're one of many acts on a bill so I find it's less pressure.
Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.
Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people.
There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.
Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.
I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.
I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.
I'm the queen of festivities, that's all I can say.
There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy. Upon those chairs in disarray, among those flowers which are withering, under those extinguished lights, there have been thoughts of joy.
What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?
The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all... something we can all enjoy together
It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window ...
but that they would be forced to participate in or help celebrate
You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.
Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.
Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.
Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A lot of people travel from all over the world to see it, and growing up, I actually used to busk on the street. I'd play my guitar, sing, and people would throw money in the case.
A party, isn't party without an a entertainment!
The use of music for intellectual enjoyment in leisure;
The really cool thing about festivals is that you're getting to play in front of a whole lot of people who have never heard of us before. That's exciting. At the same time, it's a little bit of a challenge to capture the attention of people who have already seen a lot of bands.
What most people find festive - a weekend at a beach shack with friends, a boat trip down a river, a crackling bonfire on a summer night - I see as a bleak nightmare to be grimly endured. I would sooner put lit cigarettes in my eyes than share a vacation house with a crowd.
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.
Only in Texas can mesquite have its own festival, then there's a crawfish festival, a festival for strawberries, everything has its own festival, with each town having their own yearly thing.
To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that crowd. And in the background you hear the band play, 'Oh, that's my favorite song!' everyone is there to enjoy the afternoon and that's about it.
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
And pomp, and feast, and revelry,
With mask, and antique pageantry,
Such sights as youthful poets dream
On summer eves by haunted stream.
'What is celebration?' Rather than dancing, rather than laughing, rather than loving, rather than enjoying this silence, the mind asks: 'What is celebration?'
Nothing is absolutely dead: every meaning will have its homecoming festival.
I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.
When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people.
I love celebrating music in different and unique ways.
(On literary festivals) When you go and see a band play live, you are watching it do on stage what it is meant to do. When you watch an author perform live, you are, most of the time, watching a dog walk on its hind legs.
Or a Moonie festival or something.
drinks for the crowd.
Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!
Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice.
At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big bangers but it's to me it's extra gratifying to be able to play the non-bangers and make it work. Because that's still the craft of the DJ, I think.
the Muscatonic Summer Music
Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality, and lifts the sprit to a state of hallowed and elevated enjoyment.
And the feasts on the poop and the musicians.
Film festivals are a great vehicle for gaining an audience for your film, for exposure for the talent in the film and for the film makers to leverage opportunities for their films. I love the energy that film festivals bring.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.
Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA ... a feast for the senses.
In the area we live, there's a large show of children who run from one house to another house to another house. That's lovely because it means all the children play together, and all the adults get to sit around and have coffees and read the papers or go to the park.
The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.
Qing Ming, the festival of the dead,
Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.
A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some things are more performance art or light shows or dance parties, and then you'll have a singer-songwriter stuck in the middle to make the changeovers easier.
A half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music, and have nothing but fun and music, and I God bless you for it!
State fairs are the confluence of the garish and the profound.
Holidays - Have no pity.
I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting.
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.
You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.
Anyone for a Film Festival?:
The whole idea of a festival to me is that filmmakers get to interact. You see someone strolling, you get to meet them and tell them you like their work, you admire their story.
At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [ ... ] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.
Dancing up the full moon
Round some fair new altar
Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
exhibition. Lake Eden.
I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.
European festivals area lot bigger than American ones, but I like the travelling festivals, it's the same production every day and the bands get used to the stage set up and by the third or fourth show of the tour they're putting on a better show than if they just played one day.
My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.
I'm obsessed with concerts.
The dearest events are summer-rain.
Music; joy of the heart.
Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!
Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.
I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
Guy Fawkes Night,
where locals and fans could dance the night away and take home expensive swag,
This festival ... the festival of Makar Sankranti ... is our way of showing love towards nature. While global warming poses a serious threat to the world and mankind, this message of love for our environment is extremely essential.
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
We do ritualistic animal sacrifice. We host orgies on our trampoline, every other Sunday. You didn't get our Twitter feed on that? I'm really sorry! And then, every once in awhile, we run through the city and drain people and drink their blood. It's really very romantic.
It's a community event. Community events create strong communities, and a strong community is a healthy community. A healthy community is a happy community.
I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour.
I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.
the public entertainment of any period distinguishing the period as clearly as its so-called politics,
Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption.
For me, my taste is all over the place, so the festival is the perfect match for me because I can hit, again, Against Me! and SZA, all those different genres and the experience is awesome.
Having trained as a dancer growing up, I love any dance related events.
Goddamn everything but the circus
When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
an occasional birthday dinner, and of course Marathon
The Banff Mountain [Book] Festival attracts this huge number of travel writers. Whereas when I go to literary festivals ...