Musical Quotes · Page 49

Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat....If you keep going long enough you will always get back to…

— Nikki Sixx

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

— John McLaughlin

The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something…

— Aneurin Barnard

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to…

— Anonymous

Rob Mullins' musical abilities are unquestionable.

— Hubert Laws

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Marion Woodman

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

— John Landis

I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the…

— Peggy Guggenheim

I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.

— Delta Burke

I was a teenager doing teenager things, and now I have the honor of being on tour with musical giants Enrique Iglesias…

— Prince Royce

People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized…

— Campbell McGrath

How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch…

— Cory Monteith

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their…

— Alan Bishop

There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day.

— Gena Showalter

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody,…

— John Legend

My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens…

— Steve Hackett

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

— Ed Asner

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into…

— Wilhelm Reich

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

— Novalis

I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of…

— Patti Smith

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

— Zhang Ziyi

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their…

— John Coltrane

I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas…

— John Lydon

My musical tastes change every week.

— Kirk Hammett

We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We…

— Margaret Whiting

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

— Harold Prince

I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really…

— Pantha du Prince

The producers and I first talked about the Big Fish musical, right before we did the first test screening of the movie.…

— John August

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

— Emmylou Harris

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have…

— Robyn Hitchcock

I think the people that enjoyed Freedom will love this one; and I actually think some of the unique musical twists this…

— Michael W. Smith

My dad is my biggest musical inspiration.

— Noah Cyrus

For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me,…

— Ronald Frame

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

— Missi Pyle

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama,…

— Sheridan Smith

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions…

— Edward Gibbon

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just…

— Amy Adams

“Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey…

— Suzy Kassem

Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

— Bertolt Brecht