Musical Quotes

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

I feel Britannia High is aimed at an older audience than High School Musical. Britannia High is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top.

We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different shows.

A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.

I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

My musical tastes change every week.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that's my next step.

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

Musical shows are really popular because there are lots of talented kids out there that can sing and dance.

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.

I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.

Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

Each musical finds its own way.

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.