Musical Quotes · Page 38

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

— Frank Sinatra

I mean, musical theater really informed so much of my life. It just so perfectly brings order to chaos, which is why…

— Randy Rainbow

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

— Win Butler

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

— Thelonious Monk

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create…

— John Carpenter

The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.

— Megan Hilty

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

— Ray Charles

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

— James Vincent McMorrow

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in…

— Sam Barry

I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical…

— John Keltonic

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will…

— Liam Neeson

A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it,…

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance…

— Lucy Larcom

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you…

— Edith Head

There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and…

— Tony Kushner

I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the '90s and the music from that time, and I love…

— Chelsea Leyland

On Monday they went out for a private picnic. On Tuesday they went for a carriage drive. On Wednesday they went to…

— Lisa Kleypas

I really consider myself fortunate to have been of age during the musical revolution that came in the form of the Beatles.…

— Todd Rundgren

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank…

— John Mellencamp

I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much…

— Brady Corbet

In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I…

— Joe J. Christensen

Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol…

— Gregory Isaacs

Me and Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel and Dana Carvey wrote a script called 'Hans and Franz: The Girlyman Dilemma,' and it…

— Kevin Nealon

I am saying what comes out, because I'm really not a methodical writer. I'm not a good building writer, where you are…

— William Fitzsimmons

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

— Sarah Caldwell

We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.

— Zac Efron

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,.

— Zhang Ziyi

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the…

— Smokey Robinson

Every word that I say, every song that I sing, and literally every move that I make [ in Chicaho musical] has…

— Eddie George

If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible…

— Ernest Newman

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

— Marion Woodman

I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved…

— Drew Seeley

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

— Lewis Thomas

I almost got my degree so I don't need rap. And my family is the furthest thing in the world from musical.

— JD Era

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I would definitely say that I am a very big movie musical fan in general, and I try to see every one…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

— Jennifer Damiano

It is a miracle a musical gets up because of all the different departments and how much it costs. It is a…

— Susan Stroman

I've never done a musical before. I've sung, off and on, all of my life. But I have never, ever done a…

— Mariette Hartley

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

— Bennie Wallace