Musical Quotes · Page 29

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

— Robert Moses

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

— Iggy Pop

Frances McDormand is my favorite actor. I don't know if that's relevant. But she's a person who plays people. In other words,…

— Julie Klausner

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the…

— Stephen Sondheim

You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In…

— Ben Kingsley

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

— Wynton Marsalis

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

— Kieran Hebden

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

— Reggie Watts

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

— Dwight Yoakam

We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great…

— Matt Stone

I love expanding people's musical horizons, because daytime radio can be so generic and people get sucked into listening to the same…

— Maya Jane Coles

You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

— Earl Hines

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I…

— Janel Parrish

Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive.…

— Branford Marsalis

I always had a musical bone, I guess if you will.

— Morgan Wallen

The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite…

— Tobias Dantzig

Anything we were studying in school, like math, or understanding somebody's behavior outside of school, kind of worked its way into something…

— Blake Mills

In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that,…

— Jasper Fforde

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

— Damon Thomas

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to…

— Tom T. Hall

We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a…

— Mark Hoppus

But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.

— Hugh Jackman

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

— Ray Charles

Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a…

— Les Dawson

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

— Ian Brown