Musical Quotes · Page 15

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development…

— Claude Debussy

Pippin had an opening number called "Magic to Do," and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all…

— David Copperfield

I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic,…

— Nellie McKay

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

— Thomas Beecham

A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.

— John Wolcot

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.

— Blythe Danner

[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17…

— George Michael

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always…

— Carter Burwell

I want to get a handle on the music. There's only so much you can do alone. I want everyone else there.…

— Max von Essen

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the…

— Miles Davis

I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.

— Mark Stoermer

I have intentionally not pursued musical theater.

— Katharine McPhee

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.

— Denny Laine

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

— Arturo Toscanini

There's a really rough and relatively consistent hierarchy of concerns. My musical interests come first and principally my fascination with how notes…

— Squarepusher

I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.

— Daniela Bobadilla

I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much…

— Brady Corbet

I don't follow any particular musical trend.

— Jeet Gannguli

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was…

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

Most people might think that I've come from a musical background, but nobody in my family was in any kind of band…

— Lunice

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

— Michael Patrick Walker

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical…

— Trevor Nunn

I think I can pinpoint the moment when my first band recorded, when I was 14 and 15 years old. I always…

— John Congleton