Musical Quotes · Page 84

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the…

— Gunther Schuller

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

— Wyclef Jean

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had…

— Stanley Donen

I had a very unique musical upbringing.

— Bear McCreary

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

— Marilyn Hacker

The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc…

— Dave Bidini

Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening…

— Pauline Oliveros

My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I…

— Pete Seeger

I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a…

— John Carney

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong…

— Channing Tatum

Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz…

— Miles Davis

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can…

— Mike Stern

My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on…

— Suzi Quatro

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

— Muhammad Ali

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother…

— Al Jardine

In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that…

— Karen Abbott

I did a lot of musicals when I was young and finally went to drama school to try and get away from…

— Stephen Moyer

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a…

— Christopher Walken

Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical'…

— Peter Capaldi

I had died and woken up in High School Musical

— Jamie McGuire

I've always been more visual-based. I've kept my musical tendencies kind of in the closet.

— Grant Evans

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

— Adam Ant

When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

— Blixa Bargeld

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as…

— Chester Bennington

If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the…

— Kaskade