Musical Quotes

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.

There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives.

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.

Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique

Tiffany is wrestling in Jell-O.

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.