Musical Quotes

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.

Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic

I've always been more visual-based. I've kept my musical tendencies kind of in the closet.

I know that one day I would love to do a musical.

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.

I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

Ive always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

I would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.

Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with aged, graying men.

Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so much.

Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just audio material - it's also the artwork, the packaging it comes in.

Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.

My biggest musical dream is to keep playing all my life. There's nothing bigger than that and that's very challenging because you have to satisfy yourself at every stage.

I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.

I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

For most of the projects I've worked on, I've been entrusted with some degree of musical responsibility, even if it's just like coaching for vocals and stuff.

My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York.

I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.

The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

I almost got my degree so I don't need rap. And my family is the furthest thing in the world from musical.

Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical.