Musical Quotes · Page 40

We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears,…

— James Blake

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which…

— George Crumb

I always loved music - it was always in the house - and my younger brother is musical, too.

— Marc Martel

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a…

— Billy Gibbons

I find it difficult to fully enjoy musical theatre songs if I don't know the storyline of the show they are from…

— Christian Campbell

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

— T. S. Eliot

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

— Ahmad Alaadeen

I don't think it was ever a conscious decision to go into musical theatre. It just felt like the natural progression.

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric…

— Denis Dutton

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My…

— Danny Elfman

I love singing live, actually. And I'm dying to sing in a role, whether it's in a musical or a biographical film…

— Michelle Dockery

I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the…

— Zachary Levi

The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of…

— Jon Landau

I don't come from a particularly musical family. My mother learned a bit of piano in Korea. When I was three, I…

— Charlie Albright

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create…

— Michael Tippett

There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time…

— Glenn Tipton

All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart…

— G. Stanley Hall

I created a paradigm by which I could succeed, and up until recently it was the only way I could do it.…

— Billy Corgan

Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every…

— John Coltrane

There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental.…

— Mos Def

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery…

— Oliver Sacks

Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest…

— Edgard Varese

I was actually home-schooled, so I never had the opportunity of going to prom. No-one invited me, I didn't have a good…

— Vanessa Hudgens

Well let me tell you what [High School Musical] is really about. High School Musical is about this group of boys who…

— Megan Fox

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

— Jessie Buckley

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

— Cam Newton

I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is…

— George Lucas

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

— John Lithgow

I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.

— Kris Jenner

I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen.

— Tom Scharpling

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

— Tom Petty

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

— Brett Dennen

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

— Gerry Mulligan

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

— Walt Whitman

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

— Tatiana Maslany

Gays are now allowed to serve openly in the military. So maybe our next war could be a musical.

— David Letterman

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

— Elliott Carter

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

— Aprilynne Pike

Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four.

— Travie McCoy