Musical Quotes

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.

We are still not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but there are 3,000 Kiss products, a Kiss musical toothbrush, everything from Kiss caskets to Kiss condoms. There are no Radiohead condoms.

My musical style has changed dramatically from my first album until now. That's the real developmental shift. But my clothing has pretty much stayed the same. The important thing is to be real.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't really see me as a musician and I'm out to get a bit of musical credibility.

The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw.

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers are there to eliminate obstacles to that interpretation.

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them.

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife... job. Now he wants to be a toy again.

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

My musical career was an accident.

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.

If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

I can sing, but my voice is untrained. Id like to do a musical someday.

Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album, and the artwork. I always had these ambitious musical projects in mind.

The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.