Musical Quotes · Page 31

It is a miracle a musical gets up because of all the different departments and how much it costs. It is a…

— Susan Stroman

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer…

— Gunther Schuller

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

— Paul Desmond

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

— Lara Pulver

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

— Bennie Wallace

In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.

— Joss Whedon

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

— James Vincent McMorrow

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

— Ray Charles

Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical…

— Max Beckmann

We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more…

— John Blacking

Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I…

— Dave Sitek

People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles.…

— Victor Hugo

The first time we wrote a full-blown movie musical was our adaptation of 'Mai, the Psychic Girl' for Tim Burton, which didn't…

— Ron Mael

People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that…

— John Frusciante

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least…

— Stephen King

In the middle of the night I am awakened by a sound. I sit up abruptly in bed. I hear it again.…

— Deb Caletti

Sometimes you just have to trust the kids. The first glimpse of Wheelock Family Theatre's Shrek is a surprise. Instead of the…

— Joel Brown

The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and…

— John Irving

I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn…

— John Hodgman

To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY,…

— Michael Azerrad

And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room…

— Andrew Clements

Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was…

— Anne McCaffrey

I was just in a few episodes the first season [ of Empire]. They didn't kill me, but I haven't been back…

— Judd Nelson

The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.

— Megan Hilty

If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible…

— Ernest Newman

Every word that I say, every song that I sing, and literally every move that I make [ in Chicaho musical] has…

— Eddie George

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

— Sarah Caldwell

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,.

— Zhang Ziyi

We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.

— Zac Efron

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the…

— Smokey Robinson

I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved…

— Drew Seeley

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

— Marion Woodman

I would definitely say that I am a very big movie musical fan in general, and I try to see every one…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

— Lewis Thomas

I almost got my degree so I don't need rap. And my family is the furthest thing in the world from musical.

— JD Era

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is…

— Frank Zappa

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

— Horace Silver

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

— Ozzy Osbourne