Country FANS need to support country music by BUYING albums and CONCERT tickets for traditional artists or the music will just FADE away. And that would be REALLY sad.

A promoter NEEDS to be in the e-commerce ticketing business. In a fundamental sense the promoter's JOB is to BUY a show and go and market and SELL the tickets.

While I was in Astana, a BALLET MASTER from St. Petersburg's Mariinsky THEATRE staged a PERFORMANCE of 'Giselle' in the opera hall. It was one of only a few performances to grace Astana's concert spaces in many weeks, and tickets were impossible to come by.

The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred PEOPLE in ATTENDANCE. Tickets now sell out before the LINEUP is announced.

I have so many memories of going FISHING and camping as a KID, and my DAD had season tickets to watch the Marlins - and that's where I fell in LOVE with the game.

I haven't been to a movie since somebody GAVE me free tickets to STAR WARS, which I went to.

Anytime you PUT your name on a ticket with NOTHING ELSE attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career - how many tickets are SOLD.

We as an industry need to do a BETTER job of increasing the awareness of the show, decreasing the TICKET price, and making it a better experience ONLINE to BUY tickets.

The killer WHALE Tilikum has helped SeaWorld sell millions of DOLLARS worth of tickets.

As a CHILD, I used to 'torture' other KIDS by making them be in my SHOWS. I would SELL tickets to neighbors and organize performances.

I heard heart wrenching stories about fans who had tickets for the 1980 show in Montreal, the first concert that didn't happen, when my DAD died. They'd be in tears. It was hard to DEAL with SOMETIMES.

Farz' proved to be a FLOP for the FIRST 10 weeks. I remember buying tickets WORTH Rs 5000 myself, just so the film WOULD run in theatres LONGER. And in the 11th week the film miraculously picked up and ran for 50 weeks!

I worked SELLING tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every JOB under the sun. It's the part that sucks as an artist. But I've learned at the END of the DAY you just have to enjoy your life.

It's not how MANY tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to MAKE the most MONEY. We don't REALLY care about that.