Musical Quotes · Page 17

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna.

— Big Pun

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

— Neil Innes

I wouldn't do a whole pop album. But I would do a musical.

— Marsai Martin

You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.

— James Lapine

I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw.

— Rachel Trachtenburg

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

— Steven Hall

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

— Thomas Beecham

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

— Keith Richards

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

— Doug Stanhope

John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He's also inspiring…

— Estelle

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at…

— Carter Burwell

I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash…

— William McKeen

Hamilton was young, dashing, and romantic. He lent himself perfectly to be the star of a musical.

— Ron Chernow

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox…

— Bob Brookmeyer

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is…

— Grandmaster Flash

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the…

— Neil Tennant

Normally, for a musical, the first step with my collaborators is to figure out the story and the outline and really be…

— Stephen Schwartz

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just…

— Terry Riley

When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach.…

— Anonymous

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that…

— John Cage

I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I…

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience…

— Bonnie Raitt

I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of…

— Tod Machover

Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats…

— Annie Dillard

There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were…

— Zutty Singleton

You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way.…

— Corey Taylor

Little Jimmy Dickens has long been a musical hero of mine and one of the finest entertainers to ever step on any…

— Charlie Daniels

The challenge in any musical is unifying all the moving parts of it, in particular a movie musical because now you're adding…

— Marc E. Platt

Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called…

— Bix Beiderbecke

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

— Wynton Marsalis

What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.

— Thomas Beecham

In a Broadway musical, a scene sometimes breaks into a song and vice versa.

— Anu Malik

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

— Clark Terry

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

— Rudolf Carnap

I've always considered myself something of a musical rebel.

— Edgar Winter

I'll do a musical. An ass-kickin' musical!

— Dwayne Johnson

Zooey Deschanel loves music, loves musical theater, loves the show of it.

— Jake Johnson