Musical Quotes · Page 32

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The…

— Chris Martin

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

— Eugenio Montale

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

— Neil Gaiman

I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So…

— Sophie Cookson

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

— David Hasselhoff

You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the…

— Johnny Borrell

For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there…

— Gustavo Dudamel

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

— Frank Sinatra

People are funny in like young adulthood, just like how people's musical tastes are cool, but it changes very rapidly. In five…

— Simon Rich

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of…

— Dinah Sheridan

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic…

— Howard Snell

When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played…

— Emilia Fox

The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The…

— Rachel Bloom

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a…

— Levi Strauss

I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go…

— Debby Ryan

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing…

— Erykah Badu

This amazing breakthrough full-length revolutionary audio uses a powerful new combination of a subliminal hypnotic induction AND beautiful original music (created with…

— Joe Vitale

I understand that in people's eyes, classical music is kind of a lost and dying art, but in my eyes, it's like,…

— Owen Pallett

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of…

— Julio Cortazar

We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

In my youth, cinemas showed two films in one day. I used to watch both of them. It may sound strange, but…

— Ennio Morricone

I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap when they…

— Charles Hazlewood

When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and…

— Randy Bachman

One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of…

— Jason Sudeikis

I mean, musical theater really informed so much of my life. It just so perfectly brings order to chaos, which is why…

— Randy Rainbow

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

— Tom Waits

I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.

— Robert Moog

For most of the projects I've worked on, I've been entrusted with some degree of musical responsibility, even if it's just like…

— J. Robbins

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

— Jessica Savitch

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create…

— John Carpenter

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

— Thelonious Monk

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

— Win Butler

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

— Erik Satie

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

— Amos Oz

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

— Annaleigh Ashford

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would…

— Hugh Jackman

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

— Aaron Copland

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

— Richard Armitage

'Supafunkrock' is a musical gumbo. We throw all those musical influences into the pot and put it out there.

— Trombone Shorty