Musical Quotes
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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.
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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.
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In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.
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If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
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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.
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I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
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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.
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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.
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Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.
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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
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In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
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A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
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[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!
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The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
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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.
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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.
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Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.
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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.
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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.
