Musical Quotes · Page 22

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

— John Mayer

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

— Laura Benanti

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

— Robert Mayer

I was in the final running for the Zac Efron role in 'High School Musical.'

— Matt Lanter

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

It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do…

— Harold Prince

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

— Janel Parrish

My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to…

— Wayne Wonder

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

— Mandy Patinkin

I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software…

— Frederick Lenz

A.R. Rahman is not a musician, he is a musical scientist, and when he gives advice, you need to take it seriously.

— Jubin Nautiyal

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.

— Sinead O'Connor

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

— Aaron Neville

I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on…

— St. Lucia

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've…

— Emmylou Harris

Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming…

— Marion Woodman

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or…

— Alex Kapranos

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was…

— Harold Prince

My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it…

— Louis Armstrong

I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking…

— Jonathan Glazer

When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive…

— Aberjhani

Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends...…

— Michael Cunningham

As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that,…

— Troy Andrews

As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it…

— Alexander Borodin

Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room.…

— Gayle Forman

Of course, when you see [ musical numbers] in the movie [Out To Sea ], it's cut into a lot with other…

— Brent Spiner

To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano…

— Russell Sherman

I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't…

— Ted Nugent

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

— Michael Patrick Walker

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

— Benjamin Britten

'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

A lot of people feel that 'Music Man' is a good movie musical.

— Craig Zadan

The most difficult thing to pull off in a musical is the choreography.

— Matt Besser

The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy.

— George C. Wolfe

I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.

— Edgar Meyer