Musical Quotes - Page 24

When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything.

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.

Britney Spears has shoulders like a man.

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.

Every word that I say, every song that I sing, and literally every move that I make [ in Chicaho musical] has much purpose.

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level.

The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly harmonics and dissonances as these are played into the life of the incarnating ego.

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.

As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or 8 people in the world watching the show that will sit up and go, "Oh my God the music being played is the right kind of music!"

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.