Musical Quotes · Page 35

I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.

— John Woo

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to…

— Anonymous

“That's cool baby, you know how it is, rockin' and rollin' and what not." -Danny”

— Ron De Christoforo

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

— Bjork

Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What…

— Josef Albers

The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.

— George C. Wolfe

High School Musical is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.

— Monique Coleman

I have a major love for musical theatre, including a lot of stuff I don't get to do very often.

— Lindsay Mendez

“Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version…

— Edward Rothstein

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have…

— Robyn Hitchcock

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this…

— Lights

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling…

— James Young

“The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms,…

— S.M. Stevens

You feel the camaraderie that you're all driving around in vans, you know, engaged in musical enterprise. It's pretty much the same…

— Jonathan Meiburg

I think a lot about writing and I try to read a lot. Being a musician, I don't take the words lightly;…

— Steve Gunn

There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem…

— Alice Ripley

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

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

— Anne McCaffrey

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

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

— Julio Cortazar

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

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

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musicians…

— Derek Bailey

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I…

— Patti LuPone

New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.

— Trombone Shorty

One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short, cute and chubby, and Dad used to call me his 'little fat…

— Suzi Quatro

“Love is sensational. Characters of this heart touching world are musical. So always practices to say, " I LOVE YOU".”

— Mansur Almia

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

— Oscar Peterson

I grew up doing certain little things in the musical theatre realm, but I didn't really understand that you could... make a…

— Diana DeGarmo

My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.

— Michael Moriarty

I love musical comedy; I love comedy in general, and I have varied taste in terms of books, film, theatre, and culture.

— Tom Kitt

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

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

— Tony Levin

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set…

— Mark Twain

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly,…

— Olivier Messiaen

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

— Lea Salonga

“It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

— Caroline Corr