Musical Quotes · Page 42

I have a musical ancestry as much as I have a family ancestry. Honoring those ancestors gives you access to a greater…

— Billy Corgan

My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane,…

— Frederick Lenz

I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical…

— Roshon Fegan

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of…

— Harold Prince

I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to…

— Cristin Milioti

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

— John Coltrane

If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.

— Giuseppe Venuti

As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it.…

— Mark Knopfler

I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it…

— Arthur Rubinstein

We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up…

— Denis Leary

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I…

— John August

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

— Chris Brown

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

— Anonymous

I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers…

— Laura Benanti

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

— Lee Morgan

The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.

— Jason Isbell

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 grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

— Joshua Bell

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

— Victor Borge

I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City)…

— Sarah Silverman

When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids,…

— Matisyahu

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

— Tori Amos

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show…

— Trey Parker

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it…

— Richard Armitage

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

— Teddy Thompson

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic…

— Howard Snell

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

— Bob Dylan

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes…

— Philip Sheridan

I was heavily involved in musical theater.

— Brad Goreski

We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live…

— Katharine Hepburn

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it…

— Grimes

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores…

— Kurt Masur

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

— Nick Cave

My real musical discovery started when I was 10 with Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5, and acts that I connected with…

— Nick Jonas

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

— Richard Wagner

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

— David Naughton

Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical.…

— Leon Trotsky

When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light…

— Shorty Rogers

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking…

— Danny Boyle

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk…

— John Conyers