Musical Quotes · Page 67

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