Best Musical Quotes
1396 Musical quotes by 1030 unique authors
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I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.
— Sarah Brightman
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I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
— Mel Brooks
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There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're…
— Dave Brubeck
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Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
— Lindsey Buckingham
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity…
— David Byrne
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Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.
— Jason Aldean
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
— Samuel Butler
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
— David Byrne
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's…
— Johnny Cash
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I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without…
— Gary Allan
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
— Nick Cave
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The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's…
— Nick Cave
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I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
— Fred Allen
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
— Ray Charles
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world,…
— Kurt Cobain
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I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.
— Kurt Cobain
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The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
— Jean Cocteau
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
— Tori Amos
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Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in…
— Trey Anastasio
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I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic…
— Loni Anderson
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Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
— Stanley Jordan
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I also believe my musical abilities are a true gift from God.
— Wynonna Judd
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How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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