Musical Quotes - Page 7

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.

My name ain't Keith, so could you lease stop Sweatin' me.

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.

I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well.

Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.

My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music...