Musical Quotes · Page 6

It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are…

— Alexa Ray Joel

[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little…

— Peggy Guggenheim

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

— Paul Desmond

What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.

— Thomas Beecham

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

— Wayne Rooney

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

— K. D. Lang

Any musical output is emotional.

— Sid Sriram

The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society…

— Don McLean

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the…

— Susan McClary

MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI…

— Charles Petzold

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

— Lewis Thomas

The musical mystery is: How do you marry tuned percussion and voice? On a metaphorical level, everything that's really important - like…

— Mickey Hart

Everybody in Georgia is musical, but I was slightly obsessed.

— Katie Melua

From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical…

— Sandra Bernhard

I got the job [in Moana], and the next day I was on a plane to New Zealand, where the rest of…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever…

— Sun Tzu

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

— Stanley Jordan

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

— Dan Fogelberg

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of…

— Julio Cortazar

And Paul Moravec, not being a theater person, would always trust me when I said things that I am like, "you're going…

— Terry Teachout

I don't think it will ever be lessened. Because I always move on to something else - and the music that I…

— Bradford Cox

I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still…

— Kate Bush

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

— Rod Stewart

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really…

— John Cale

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most…

— Phil Ochs