Musical Quotes
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If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
Seth MacFarlane -
I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
Mike Figgis
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In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
Ravi Shankar -
I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
Steve Martin -
'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.
Dolly Parton -
There's an interesting thing I've seen with Australian bands: when you put them side-by-side with bands from other parts of the world, they're just more musical. They're just better.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
Molly Ringwald -
I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?
Ray Bradbury
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It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance or downtown dance, ballet is formalized, and there's something orthodox about it that I like. I like that there's less emphasis on subversion and innovation. I actually think that my musical vernacular or my musical voice is also less inclined toward innovation and subversion. I think I'm a traditionalist.
Sufjan Stevens -
[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!
Whoopi Goldberg -
Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.
Esa-Pekka Salonen -
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.
Carter Burwell -
The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
Carson McCullers
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Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.
Stephen Sondheim -
In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.
Emma Stone -
I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.
Erol Alkan -
Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe -
A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
Harvey Fierstein -
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
Walter Damrosch