Musical Quotes · Page 36

If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays…

— Robert Lopez

I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.

— Estelle

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

— Sarah Brightman

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

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Missi Pyle

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 am a very, very fortunate and blessed guitar player to always be surrounded by musical monsters, so my life has been…

— Ted Nugent

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when…

— John Cage

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a…

— Bo Burnham

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not…

— May Sarton

I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and…

— Mike Love

Other than a few years of piano as a kid, I don't have all that much musical training. I played piano for…

— John Keltonic

Michael Jackson changed the format and history of music. His videos were films. He was the first who floated on the stage…

— Nicky Jam

I would love to do a big-budget movie musical - I feel like there is one big musical movie a year. And…

— Autumn Reeser

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

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a…

— Annie E. Clark

Music is so incredible, the most healing force in the world along with love of course which all things are created and…

— Giuseppe Andrews

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

Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician…

— Chuck Israels

A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the…

— Adam Gopnik

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

— Deb Caletti

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

— Jerry Seinfeld

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

— Grant Evans

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Jefferson Mays