Norman Jewison Quotes

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

Norman Jewison

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• Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

  

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

  

  Sam Tsui
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• Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

  

  Beck
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• The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and king of the blues has died. I have cherished him and so has the rest of the world who knew him and loved him for his entire career. As we pain, we must celebrate that his music, his style of playing and singing will last forever, from the recordings that he has done and the influence that he has had and will have on guitarists all over this planet. Long live the spirit of B.B. King.

  

  Stevie Wonder
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• J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
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• I've always loved that film 'The Three Caballeros', and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Work
  • Film
  • Loved

• I'm very eclectic in what I like and what I listen to. But my favorite musical ever is "The Sound of Music." That was actually one that inspired me to sing.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Music
  • Inspired
  • Musical

• The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Movie
  • Musical
  • Performances

• If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.

  

  Clara Barton
  • War
  • History
  • Earth

• I'm not going to say it's easy, but I do have an ease with picking up fight choreography because of my dance training.

  

  Katrina Law
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Training

• I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I'm doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Want
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  • Musical

• I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Believe
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• When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Mean
  • Cry
  • Musical

• I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Restaurant
  • Tracks
  • Ambivalence

• Bernard insisted on having ‘just one more go’, and in doing so used up mine and Steve’s tracks, wiping them, so by the time Martin finally threw up his hands and told us to fuck off, Barney’s was the only vocal left on tape. Which is pretty much how he became our singer.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
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  • Tracks
  • Tape

• A radical thinker on a musical level.

  

  D-Nice Boogie Down Productions
  • Musical
  • Radical

• You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
  • Mind
  • Sorry
  • Tracks

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

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Creation
  • Musical
  • Mozart

• I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• Something good always happens at 4:20 for me.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Happens

• When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

  

  Norman Jewison
  • Musical
  • Tracks
  • Choreography