Musical Quotes - Page 43

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

I would love to do a musical!

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.

There are so many international musical connections here, in Amsterdam. And some of them are amazingly successful.

Take me home tonight, listen honey, just like Ronnie sang, be my little baby.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

I'll do a musical. An ass-kickin' musical!

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

I don't think that I have any musical talent.

If Hitler were alive the best punishment would be to put him out-of-town with a new musical.

I grew up in a really musical house where all of my brothers and sisters could sing, but I couldn't sing. Not only could I not sing, I couldn't hear pitch. I was totally tone deaf - legitimately, one hundred percent tone deaf. Nevertheless, I loved music.

I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.

'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.

I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I would be quite happy if I died tomorrow.

I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.