It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're… — Jacob Collins Copy Share Image
Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way. — Christian Borle Copy Share Image
The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I'll always be an actor first. I grew up doing musical theater, so music and acting, to me, have always gone hand… — Jon Huertas Copy Share Image
Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section. — Jo Jones Copy Share Image
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
Loving the process. I learn it over and again and in different ways. I'm speaking particularly to the musical process, but I… — Madi Diaz Copy Share Image
We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen… — Neil Tennant 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
I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought… — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
But if you get a kick out of "The Jerry Springer Show," you're going to love it! The idea of hearing these… — Max von Essen Copy Share Image
Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
This amazing breakthrough full-length revolutionary audio uses a powerful new combination of a subliminal hypnotic induction AND beautiful original music (created with… — Joe Vitale Copy Share Image
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I specifically remember doing the musical 'Sweet Charity' at Stagedoor. I was playing Vittorio Vidal, which is a very funny part, and… — Sebastian Stan Copy Share Image
Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing.… — Robby Benson Copy Share Image
My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, like, there's songs like "Valerie" and "Bang Bang Bang" that I was so proud of. And, you know, the level… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off. — John Lurie Copy Share Image
Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always. — Bjork Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
