Musical Quotes - Page 8

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things; not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

Snoop Doggy Dogg paged, that must mean more hoes.

If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for me, what I like best is what I do, which is, I call it vaudeville, I call it live, I call it in concert, I call it what Bette Midler does, and what Garland did for years, and Ethel Merman.

No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.

I grew up doing musical theater.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.

I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

We can't all come and go by bubble!

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

We stand for musical individuality. That's all we stand for.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.