Musical Quotes · Page 3

I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

— Novalis

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

— Whoopi Goldberg

I think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm…

— Rokia Traore

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an…

— Midge Ure

My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.”

— Roman Payne

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

— Thomas Beecham

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

— K. Flay

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

— Mary Lou Williams

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

— Alvin Lee

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

— Madonna Ciccone

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come…

— Mary Lou Williams

The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing…

— Arto Lindsay

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

— Ronald Reagan

I love you," he said, his voice almost musical with happiness. She shot him a scowl. "Isn't saying that a bit dangerous…

— C.C. Hunter

The dream was to not only make a good-looking film that engaged, but also had the DNA of the show so the…

— Eric Fellner

Just like there's a hole in the ozone layer, there's a hole in the musical ecological layer [wrt lack of successful "conscious"…

— Vernon Reid

This is a musical, ma'am. If there's no gay, there's a problem.

— Andrew Rannells

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional…

— Muriel Rukeyser

Texas is where I found my musical self.

— Jerry Jeff Walker

The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because…

— Jennifer Lopez

Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the…

— David Whyte

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 grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz…

— Molly Ringwald