Musical Quotes

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

The majority of people mistakenly feel like they don't need a live musical experience.

Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation and illiteracy.

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'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.

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.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

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

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

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

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.

I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

It's the process, not the result.

For whatever reason, acting took the front seat but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.

I'm looking for the surprises, you know, and the unexpected moments of technology, the unexpected moments of musical creation.

I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.

Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.

If I ever have children of my own, they will read Matilda. They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see Matilda: The Musical.

I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

If you remove tone from music, you have something, but what? I find it difficult to call it music.

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

You don't get paid for being brave!

I had died and woken up in High School Musical