Musical Quotes
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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
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All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.
Dolly Parton
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I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.
Nicole Kidman
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I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.
Essie Davis
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If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
Seth MacFarlane
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I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
Mike Figgis
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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Stephen Sondheim
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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
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I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.
Dolly Parton
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In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
Ravi Shankar
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I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.
Sarah Silverman
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Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
Steve Martin
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[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!
Whoopi Goldberg
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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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The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
Harvey Fierstein
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Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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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
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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