Musical Quotes · Page 18

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

— Suzi Quatro

If you're a girl and you're musical, you're automatically the product.

— Griff

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

— Carly Simon

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

— Stanley Jordan

“The scene is very Sopranos meets Rent .”

— Rachel Cohn

I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

— Lee Konitz

Two of my biggest musical inspirations are Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell.

— Dennis Lloyd

You forget how many generations love 'High School Musical.'

— Joe Sugg

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

— Henry David Thoreau

I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.

— Michael Ian Black

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

— Patrick Wilson

“Musical comedy is the Irish stew of drama. Anything may be put into it, with the certainty that it will improve the…

— P. G. Wodehouse

It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now…

— Bryan Ferry

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

— Paul McCartney

It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level.…

— Steve Jones

I would love to do a play, but I don't know about musical theatre. I've never done anything like that.

— Chandra West

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the…

— James Wolcott

Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is connected to the rhythm of music. They’re both about creating tension…

— Conan O'Brien

I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of…

— Andy Kim

What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime - came over with Michael Eisner, Frank…

— Alan Menken

Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He…

— Edward Abbey

This group came on stage, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and this whirling dervish, this electrifying white soul singer was so…

— Clive Davis

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that…

— Daryl Hall

We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last…

— Nikka Graff Lanzarone

It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem…

— John Ruskin

I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A…

— Max Roach

I'm not the kind of guy who walks around with a notebook writing lyrics. For me, melody and song structure come first…

— Cary Brothers

I'm so honored to be on this recording with Ann & Nancy Wilson. They are iconic and I've truly been one of…

— Deana Carter

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never…

— Todd Rundgren

I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.…

— Kenny Smith

Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the…

— Jon Landau

The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.

— Stephen Malkmus

I would love to write a Broadway musical.

— Seth Macfarlane

You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show.

— Graham Chapman

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

— Edie Brickell

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

— Joshua Bell

I'm not much of a musical-goer; they don't really appeal to me.

— Julian Ovenden

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

— Anonymous

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

— Thomas Beecham