Musical Quotes
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I'm not musical myself.
Callie Khouri
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I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the musical behind it.
Cedric Gervais
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The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.
Yefim Bronfman
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Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.
Stephen Sondheim
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I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
William Shakespeare
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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.
Glenn Frey The Eagles
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Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.
Raza Jaffrey
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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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Musical theatre is my first love.
Laura Benanti
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They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
Eddie Condon
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Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.
Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
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I'm a wordless storyteller, someone who cares about the dynamics of music...Musical dynamics are human dynamics.
Ahmad Jamal
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The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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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
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I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.
Gareth Gates