Music Quotes - Page 93

A lot of people say, "What's the worst part about being an actor?" And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.

Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.

The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They don't have to come from some far off place.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

Music is the emotional life of the most people.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.