Musical Quotes · Page 30

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone,…

— Tom Chapin

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

— John Legend

If Hitler were alive the best punishment would be to put him out-of-town with a new musical.

— Donna McKechnie

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

— Tom Waits

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

— Robert Fripp

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

— Baz Luhrmann

But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes…

— Joe Mantello

First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my…

— Miles Teller

I'm not in "Bend and Snap." But, I will say that when I first heard they were making Legally Blonde into a…

— Katherine Shindle

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

— Shirley Manson

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

— Richard Wagner

I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what…

— Chuck D

Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too.…

— Linda Ronstadt

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind…

— Sara Paxton

Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.

— Mary Oliver

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.

— Rob Brown

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres…

— Luis Miguel

I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we…

— Michael Hutchence

You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.

— Eric Fellner

It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical…

— George Leonard

I come from a musical kind of family.

— Chris O'Dowd

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

— Lesley Garrett