Musical Quotes - Page 28

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.

They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a musical snob. I feel like if you're going to record music and you're going to be a singer, you have to be able to sing.

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.

First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace.

She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four.

There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the other great contribution is American musical theater, which is a whole other kettle of fish.

I love everything. I don't see myself doing a really serious drama in the next five to ten years. I don't feel mature enough for that yet. But I'd like to make a pure action movie one day or maybe I can do a comedy again. I do like everything. But I don't feel ready for a musical or something like that. That's not my thing yet.

The record is definitely a musical journey. It's kind of all over the place, which I like.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen.

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch your music and to hear it and hear it in the room with you and to say, you can't have an entire orchestra there, but you'd kind of like to have the orchestra there.

It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.