Musical Quotes
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
There has been a whole lot. Just to combine a musical career with the last year on high school was enough as it is. I didn't think it should fare as well as it did, but apparently it did.
I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.
My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.
When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.
There's top 40 R&B/hip-hop, which is probably sexy but you wouldn't listen to it for a musical awakening.
I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.
Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.
As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.
I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!
I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.
I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
I think the people that enjoyed Freedom will love this one; and I actually think some of the unique musical twists this project is taking will open it up to a whole new audience as well.
The musical mystery is: How do you marry tuned percussion and voice? On a metaphorical level, everything that's really important - like the clouds, the sky and the earth - is a giant mystery.
The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.
Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.
I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.
I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
High School Musical is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.
I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.
All of the musical projects that I am involved with are near and dear to my heart and allow me in a small way to make a contribution to the world of music.
No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.
Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.
I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.
I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.
Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind of regrettable.
People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.
I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.
Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.