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Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all… — Kid Cudi
My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener. — Pat Metheny
Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music. — Edward Abbey
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no… — Edward Abbey
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the… — Lynn Johnston
I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic… — Andrew Sarris
If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of… — Lars von Trier
Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods,… — Claude Levi-Strauss
I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue — Brian De Palma
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? — John Cage
I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband. — Kim Wilde
During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in… — TobyMac
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy… — Tony Visconti
I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for… — Danny Boyle
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on… — Socrates
The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided,… — Sue Margolis
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo… — Karin Lowachee
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them, — Plato
The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly Bros., Elvis, Del… — Will Oldham
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness. — Robert Bringhurst
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in… — Unknown Author
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever… — Virgil Thomson
The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as… — Arto Lindsay
Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that.… — Alex Kapranos

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