Musical Quotes · Page 26

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

— Cornel West

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

— Trey Anastasio

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

— Nick Cave

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

— Carice van Houten

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

— Pablo Casals

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

— Anonymous

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

— Anonymous

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

— Emmylou Harris

[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

— Kurt Elling

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.

— Vivek Shraya

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical…

— John Maus

I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I…

— Eugene Ormandy

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

— Zubin Mehta

My life keeps changing artistically. What to do? One moment I want to write a film, the second I want to write…

— Shobana

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known…

— Bret McKenzie

Staying enthused about finding things; discovering new beauty in the world that can translate into music. That's the most precious sort of…

— Blake Mills

It's funny because I consider myself a musical scavenger. What that means to me is that I usually avoid feeding on the…

— Colin Munroe

I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could…

— Todd Rundgren

The more people who come from musical backgrounds and go into promotion, production, songwriting, A&R, plus get their business head together, the…

— Harvey Mason, Jr

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth;…

— Rudolf Nureyev

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater.…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's…

— Megan Hilty

I love singing! I was a musical theater girl in high school. We were always singing and dancing around, and just doing…

— Katie Lowes

No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can…

— Sarah Harmer

The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society…

— Don McLean

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my…

— John Legend

Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds.…

— Eckhart Tolle

I've always wanted to be a communicator of ideas through music. Today, I wanna be the most effective musical communicator of social…

— Michael Franti

The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way…

— Andrew S. Gilbert

There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There…

— Sun Tzu

Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

— Jimi Hendrix

I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about.

— Lesley Gore

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

— Mike Nichols

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

— Carol Burnett

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

— David Mitchell

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

— Miles Davis

Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.

— Nikki Sixx