Musical Quotes

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

I find it difficult to fully enjoy musical theatre songs if I don't know the storyline of the show they are from as well as the context.

Frankly I don't listen to lyrics (a problem in that I apparently work in musical theatre) I just want a good tune that doesn't require the use of too much grey matter.

I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in a play and kept going. But I never set out to be an actor; it happened over time.

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

I don't think that I have any musical talent.

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

There has been studies looking at like musical talent and it shows that there is actually a really large genetic component involved.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

Rob Mullins' musical abilities are unquestionable.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class.

My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Musical theatre is my first love.

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.

Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.