Musical Quotes · Page 34

My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical…

— Rafal Blechacz

I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

— Howard Gardner

The only thing that really inspired me for singing was the movie and musical 'Phantom of the Opera.' I went to see…

— Jackie Evancho

So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that…

— Don Paterson

Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone…

— Lester Young

I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs…

— Sara Bareilles

[My father] was not a musical man.

— George Michael

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a…

— Sting

They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of…

— Simon Cowell

Every part of every song can have a totally different musical sound, because otherwise if I wanted to go from a verse…

— Annie E. Clark

Life is a musical influence in my experience. But as far as actual music and actual bands, uh, I'll just look at…

— Jeremy Enigk

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily…

— Nick Cave

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

— Mel Brooks

Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with…

— Henrik Vibskov

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

— Lara Pulver

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

— Kevin James

I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind…

— Ritchie Blackmore

One of my dreams has always been to be in a Broadway musical.

— Jaime Camil

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't…

— Ronnie Wood

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through…

— Diane Kruger

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and…

— Plato

Each musical finds its own way.

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

— Pat Metheny

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

— Phil Collins