Musical Quotes · Page 16

Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

— Zac Efron

I would do a movie musical.

— Alia Shawkat

I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its…

— Jimmy Page

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

— Tony Levin

...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history,…

— Rich Mullins

I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all…

— Nikki Blonsky

In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.

— Thomas Beecham

I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff…

— Steve Vai

I'd love to do a musical on the lines of 'Salangai Oli,' 'Sankarabharanam' and 'Sindhu Bhairavi.'

— D. Imman

I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home…

— Miles Teller

Any time you have a song that is directly connected to a very specific musical trend of the moment, you have immediately…

— Ryan Tedder

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to…

— Dana Gioia

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

— Tom Harrell

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a…

— Annie E. Clark

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and…

— Nancy Gibbs

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would…

— Hugh Jackman

“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a…

— Anonymous

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

— Waylon Jennings

We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster…

— Lawrence Welk

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as…

— Hildegard Knef

Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without…

— Charles Baudelaire

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it…

— Paul Valery

I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like…

— D. B. Sweeney

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

— Johnny Griffin