Musical Quotes · Page 78

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