Musical Quotes

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

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

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance!

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

Music should never be harmless.

I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

Mariah Carey is kinda scary.

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.