Musical Quotes · Page 37

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

— Robert Fripp

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

— Erik Satie

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

— Annaleigh Ashford

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

— Amos Oz

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

— Aaron Copland

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

— Trombone Shorty

I am very proud of my musical growth and contributions to the band in the last four years. I have nothing but…

— Derek Sherinian

If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the…

— Kaskade

I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a…

— David Klass

I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to…

— Andrew Rannells

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the…

— America Ferrera

Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical…

— Xavier Rudd

I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't…

— Shahin Najafi

Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland'…

— Matisyahu

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has…

— Peter Warlock

In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like…

— Kehinde Wiley

Those original, black, spirited, defiant, rebellious musical masters. Chuck Berry was one of the first masters of Les Paul's new electric guitar;…

— Ted Nugent

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…

— George Steiner

When Derek Miller and I started working together, we had a very clear vision for the sound of the band. It was…

— Alexis Krauss

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

— Don Paterson

From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes.…

— John Lennon

“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of…

— Dean Koontz

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

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

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

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

— Eugenio Montale

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

— Chris Martin

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is…

— Frank Zappa

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

— Horace Silver

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

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

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

— Robert Moog

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

— Tom Waits