Musical Quotes

You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

We stand for musical individuality. That's all we stand for.

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of

Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.

I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They don't have to come from some far off place.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

The devil doesn't stay where there is music.

I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

I was born with music inside me

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

We can't all come and go by bubble!