Musical Quotes · Page 11

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

— Anonymous

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

— Jimi Hendrix

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

— Nick Cave

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

— Trey Anastasio

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

— Carice van Houten

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

— Pablo Casals

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

— Fred Allen

We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch…

— Thomas Beecham

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

— Nick Lowe

I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre -…

— Bertie Carvel

First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well.

— Jose Garcia Villa

We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's…

— Richard Hyung-ki Joo

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

— Laura Benanti

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong…

— Channing Tatum

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.

— Wendy Starland

There will always be a part of me that wants to do a movie musical. I feel like you're doing yourself a…

— Anna Kendrick

I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going…

— Harold Prince

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually…

— Max Heindel

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about…

— Jerry Garcia

Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring…

— Rhymefest

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not…

— Henri Rabaud

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are…

— Hugh Jackman

I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors,…

— Noah Cicero

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about…

— Earl Nightingale

There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's…

— Roy Haynes

The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something…

— Aneurin Barnard

'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in…

— Mark Doty

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz…

— Molly Ringwald

If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two…

— Coleman Hawkins

The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But…

— David Mitchell

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people…

— Anonymous

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

— Cornel West

'The Rocky Horror Show' was actually my first musical love.

— Jennifer Saunders

My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.

— Coolio

I don't think that I have any musical talent.

— Drew Barrymore

She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.

— Trisha Yearwood

Music is a defining element of character.

— Plato

I feel like I've won the musical lottery.

— Anderson East

Anything can be a musical if it makes sense for it to be a musical.

— Michael Patrick Walker