Musical Quotes
How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
Tags: Chances, Minute ✍ Author: Johnny DeppIt was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
Tags: Band, Director ✍ Author: Billy EckstineI'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
Tags: Music, Theater ✍ Author: Jesse EisenbergI can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday.
Tags: Sing, Voice ✍ Author: Sherilyn FennThe Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
Tags: Both, Opposition ✍ Author: Brian FerneyhoughSpeaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
Tags: Great, Speaking ✍ Author: Lady GagaScales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.
Tags: Exciting, Played ✍ Author: James GalwayI don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.
Tags: Community, Family ✍ Author: Lesley GarrettPeople's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
Tags: Fashion, Music ✍ Author: Alex KapranosI don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist.
Tags: Lyricist, Work ✍ Author: David Lindsay-AbaireI try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.
Tags: Style, Try ✍ Author: Adam LambertMusical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.
Tags: Familiar, Theatre ✍ Author: David NaughtonThe extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
Tags: Experience, Nice ✍ Author: Aaron NevilleMy father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
Tags: Father, Wanted ✍ Author: Cam Newton'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.
Tags: Special, Stage ✍ Author: Elaine PaigeSondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
Tags: Sondheim, Theater ✍ Author: Mandy PatinkinVisit partners pages
Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.
Tags: Problems, Ways ✍ Author: Suzi QuatroEventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.
Tags: Eventually, Orchestra ✍ Author: Paul SamuelsonI marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
Tags: Fly, King ✍ Author: George TakeiIreland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
Tags: Catch, Places ✍ Author: James TaylorMost people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago.
Tags: Inspired, Someone ✍ Author: Steve VaiOne of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.
Tags: Biggest, Definitely ✍ Author: Elle VarnerI am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.
Tags: Side, Wrong ✍ Author: Rufus WainwrightQuality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.
Tags: Quality, Trying ✍ Author: Dwight YoakamI don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
Tags: Decisions, Regret ✍ Author: Dwight YoakamI'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
Tags: Project, Theater ✍ Author: Tatyana AliI play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
Tags: Amazing, Instrument ✍ Author: Fred AllenI'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
Tags: Characters, Idea ✍ Author: Tori AmosI grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.
Tags: Family, Nobody ✍ Author: Joshua BellOver the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.
Tags: Collected, Friends ✍ Author: Joshua BellDo I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
Tags: Musicals, Write ✍ Author: Laura BenantiBeing on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.
Tags: Enjoyed, Quest ✍ Author: Richard Rodney BennettI am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.
Tags: Bad, Music ✍ Author: Michael Ian BlackI was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.
Tags: Baby, Singing ✍ Author: Robert BoyleI like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
Tags: Makes, Whole ✍ Author: Edie BrickellI know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
Tags: Great, Stage ✍ Author: Mel BrooksI was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.
Tags: Missed, Surprised ✍ Author: Delta BurkeThe blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
Tags: Blues, Body ✍ Author: Nick CaveThe ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
Tags: Nose, Pieces ✍ Author: Jean CocteauThe sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
Tags: Sound, Sounds ✍ Author: Chick CoreaWell I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.
Tags: Background, Time ✍ Author: Caroline CorrI'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.
Tags: Enough, Produced ✍ Author: Simon CowellI've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.
Tags: Learned, Playing ✍ Author: Jeremy DenkI'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
Tags: Personally, Visual ✍ Author: Emilie de RavinI like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
Tags: Camera, Work ✍ Author: Mike FiggisI wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
Tags: Pay, Wanted ✍ Author: Dan FogelbergI'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.
Tags: Develop, Quite ✍ Author: Aidan GillenNo-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.
Tags: Friend, Partner ✍ Author: David GilmourI had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.
Tags: Helped, Ideas ✍ Author: Lou GrammMy mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
Tags: Movies, Theatre ✍ Author: Jake GyllenhaalBluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
Tags: Once, Start ✍ Author: Emmylou HarrisIf I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
Tags: Magic, Place ✍ Author: Neil Patrick HarrisThen when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.
Tags: Festival, Hollywood ✍ Author: Gregory HarrisonI feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.
Tags: Pretty, Rhythm ✍ Author: Colin HayI would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.
Tags: Win, Working ✍ Author: Evan HunterBand of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.
Tags: Band, Elephant ✍ Author: Michael KorytaI'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.
Tags: Head, Love ✍ Author: Swoosie KurtzIn no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
Tags: Sing, Wind ✍ Author: Jerome LawrenceDigital music boils down the actual musical experience.
Tags: Experience, Music ✍ Author: Simon LeBonYeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
Tags: Love, Partner ✍ Author: Michel LegrandWe all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.
Tags: Instincts, Precious ✍ Author: Tony LevinI'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.
Tags: Film, Love ✍ Author: Leona LewisI really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
Tags: Again, Making ✍ Author: Baz LuhrmannI would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.
Tags: Blessed, Love ✍ Author: Heather MatarazzoI look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.
Tags: Bricklayer ✍ Author: Robert MayerMy biggest musical influences are probably my parents.
Tags: Biggest, Parents ✍ Author: Bobby McFerrinThere are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
Tags: Kinds, Success ✍ Author: John McLaughlinI have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.
Tags: Artist, Love ✍ Author: Thia MegiaI like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
Tags: Characters, Theater ✍ Author: Idina MenzelNo one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.
Tags: Music, Stone ✍ Author: Olivier MessiaenI like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
Tags: Rich, Writing ✍ Author: Edgar MeyerI don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.
Tags: Listen, Rock ✍ Author: Luis MiguelI did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.
Tags: Angeles, Tour ✍ Author: Christina MilianI think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
Tags: Notes, Words ✍ Author: David MitchellI always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.
Tags: Match, Try ✍ Author: Roscoe MitchellSlowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
Tags: Arts, Poetry ✍ Author: Eugenio MontaleIf you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
Tags: Comedy, Idol ✍ Author: Robert MosesThink of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.
Tags: Put, String ✍ Author: Marsha NormanHopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.
Tags: Call, Talent ✍ Author: Leo Ornstein