Musical Quotes · Page 33

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts…

— Stephen Sondheim

Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real…

— Jason Alexander

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

— Anonymous

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as…

— Oliver Sacks

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

— Pablo Casals

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

— Marilyn Hacker

Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

— Bent Saether

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

— Robert Fripp

There's something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn't work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without…

— Pedro Almodovar

There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children.…

— Laura Benanti

So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers…

— Margaret Whiting

The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome…

— Conan O'Brien

I never made a distinction, really, between music and sound. Let me explain what I mean by that. I grew up near…

— Steven Wilson

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had…

— Gretchen Mol

As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The…

— Andrew Rannells

I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of…

— Twyla Tharp

I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and…

— Andy Serkis

We often say that psi is like musical ability: it is widely distributed in the populate, and everyone has some ability and…

— Russell Targ

I'm glad I can do both full-band electric and solo acoustic performances. It's nice to have contrast, so if you get fed…

— Richard Thompson

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

In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended…

— Shirley Hazzard

A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though,…

— Marcel Proust

As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic. Gentleness and amiability are expressed…

— Neltje Blanchan

The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would. Justine is…

— Melina Marchetta

A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.

— Jefferson Mays

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

— Kevin Shields

I've been singing since I could talk, pretty much. My dad was really musical and taught me how to sing harmonies and…

— Bonnie McKee

I didn't know every day I would be discussing the tone of my voice with my wife. I thought it was a…

— Jerry Seinfeld

In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

— Randal Kleiser

Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a…

— David LaMotte

I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

— James Sellars

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about,…

— Bruce Springsteen

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my…

— Elvis Presley

I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that…

— Missi Pyle

I've always been more visual-based. I've kept my musical tendencies kind of in the closet.

— Grant Evans

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can…

— Mike Stern

I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

— Jeremy Denk

I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the…

— Cedric Gervais

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

— Joseph Addison

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond…

— Carlisle Floyd