Musical Quotes - Page 10

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

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

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.

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.

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty much you approach the songs in pretty much the same way. The difference might be that in a film you have a close up. On stage you don't. So there are more songs on the stage because the songs are kind of the close up.

I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.

Mozart is the musical Christ.

I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion.

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.

I love the American musical for the simplicity of emotion that gets expressed.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.