Musical Quotes
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The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk was rebellious-and justified in that response-but it had very little to do with music, and so it created a highly-charged but frighteningly floundering atmosphere that I found very, very disheartening. Musical quality for me has always been an important part of rock'n'roll-and winning recognition for that has long been an uphill battle all the way. Punk seemed like rock'n'roll utterly without the music.
Steve Winwood Blind Faith -
Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish -
Debbie Gibson is pregnant with my two headed love child, it's a big foot baby all covered in fur.
Mojo Nixon -
You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.
Stephen Sondheim -
The aficionado prefers a crazy bomb to a mediocrity, because the musical as a form has such potential as entertainment that the merely adequate can fatigue the spirit while the disaster can amuse with its drastic misjudgments and desperation gambles.
Ethan Mordden -
Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?
Michael McKean -
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.
Varg Vikernes Burzum
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We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical is not - the reference is wrong, because classical on one hand refers to one period in musical history, which is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, which is a fine period in musical history, but it was a while ago.On the other hand, it sort of alludes to some kind of "class," which A, is not true; B, is kind of detrimental to the whole idea. Because the point is that this music is available and it's actually relatively reasonably priced.
Esa-Pekka Salonen -
And Paul Moravec, not being a theater person, would always trust me when I said things that I am like, "you're going to need another 10 seconds of music year to get them across the stage." But I always knew that the people were going to be coming to hear his music of which my words are going to be a part. It was clear that he wanted to go and direction A., and I wanted to go and direction B. We would've gone and direction A. That's the most important piece of advice I can give to anybody who finds themselves in an opera, or musical comedy situation like that.
Terry Teachout -
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
Stephen Sondheim -
Well, the most important thing in choreographing for a specific tune is to get the story line and try to make your movements, rather than just actual movements, let them become more or less a physical drama to, to what they were singing about. And uh, also, uh, honor the beat and the rhythmic pattern of the musical track.
Cholly Atkins -
I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.
Nicole Kidman -
The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision.
Dave Bidini
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There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.
Mitch Leigh -
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
Nina Blackwood -
I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.
Michelle Branch -
Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school.
Mitch Leigh -
The narrative shouldn't stop for the song in a musical. The music has to continue the narrative of the storytelling.
Mike Mitchell -
I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.
Mike Figgis
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The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.
Woody Shaw -
I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.
Steven Hall -
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.
Cecil Taylor -
In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.
Nick Blaemire