Musical Quotes - Page 14

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound.

I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.

I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

I have heard Ori Kam on several occasions over the last few years and have always been deeply impressed with his playing. He possesses a rare combination of musical talent, technical facility, intelligence, and charisma, and he is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary young artists I have heard in recent years.

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

Different musical instruments provide for different music.