The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people. — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical. — Julia Barr Copy Share Image
It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody. — Hiromi Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift. — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists...… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the… — Emile Jaques-Dalcroze Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Well let me tell you what [High School Musical] is really about. High School Musical is about this group of boys who… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about the cistern is that, if you're improvising in a dead room, you play your note and then you're… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . .… — Manny Laureano Copy Share Image
“There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image