Musical Quotes

Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.

I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.

No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.

I would do a musical, but I can't sing.

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

We like the idea of being a little divisive without making it into some kind of philosophical musical approach, and maybe we can convert some people to our view of the world.

We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and confront people.

I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of stuff that was so powerful that I just needed to find it. I have no regrets.

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.

Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

It's the opposite of that. Engineers in lab coats have created a musical experience that is so crisp and clean, it can literally improve your hearing.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

I had no musical training at all.

Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes.

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.