Musical Quotes

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.

I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.

We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that charted. That was so long ago.

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.

Mozart is the musical Christ.

The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality.

I love the American musical for the simplicity of emotion that gets expressed.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

I think theres something strangely musical about noise.

The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?

He'd be better off shoveling snow.

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.

I can tell that fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting. High School Musical is what got me here today and I'm very grateful - but the fame part isn't so fun.

I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.

I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.

There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.