Auditorium Quotations | Page 2

We go to second, third, fourth, and fifth grades with the different ensembles, ... Last year, we did 90 ensemble programs and seven concerts, reaching 16,000 kids in the classes and performances. We bring them to Richardson Auditorium or the State Theater for our concert in May. There is nothing like a live performance. Hearing a live performance of classical music by professional musicians in a very exciting manner is a wonderful experience. These kids are the audiences of the future.

The endowment allowed us to not worry about the bottom line. We don't have to pack an auditorium with 200 people to make money.

In 2009 Schaeffer Auditorium will be completely renovated and all structural issues will be corrected.

The Fillmore Auditorium has been one of the most successful clubs in the country in terms of ticket sales and shows we bring in. There has been a lot of interest in box seats, and frankly, we felt it was the next step into making it even a better hall.

Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.

The current auditorium is appalling. This goes to the fundamental of what schools are about. You can?t pull out potential in the current facilities. You can teach music, but you have to have a place to apply it.

I know that John would be absolutely delighted with having the Kennedy Space Center's press auditorium named after him, given his passion for covering the U.S. space program and his dedication to journalism. I can think of no one else more deserving of this honor.

Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.