Musical Quotes

Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

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

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

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

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular and not as bad as some would have you believe. That is, unspeakably awful but mercifully brief.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.