Musical Quotes · Page 24

Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical…

— Xavier Rudd

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

— Aaron Copland

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

— James Taylor

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

— Nathan Lane

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

— Billy Joel

“Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily…

— Matt Haig

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

— Harold Prince

My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.

— Coolio

If I could do a sort of comical musical, that would be everything!

— Debra Stephenson

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

— Max Roach

Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style,…

— Thomas Hampson

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

— Elton John

I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work,…

— Walt Dohrn

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It…

— Valerie Simpson

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

— Joe Perry

'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.

— Dolly Parton

Different musical instruments provide for different music.

— Amos Oz

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

— Scott Joplin

“There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands…

— Tom Jones

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

— Idina Menzel

I would love to do a musical!

— Elle Fanning

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is…

— Claude-Michel Schonberg

Black musicians rhythmicized the contredanse, creating musical styles which evolved into the habanera (also known as the tango) and, later, ragtime, as…

— Ned Sublette

Revolt is designed to be a home for the next generation of musical artists, and we are investing in the artists and…

— Sean Combs