Musical Quotes

• It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Like
  • Wonderful
  • Interested

• Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

  

  Beck
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Exist

• It feels like a continuation of the Blondie sound. It's very eclectic, ... Our influences are not all musical. We're influenced by art, culture, camp values and irony. That's what puts us away from the rest of the pack.

  

  Clem Burke Blondie
  • Musical
  • Irony
  • Continuation

• Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Solitude

• Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Pieces
  • Rooms

• I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously.

  

  Terry Wogan
  • Thinking
  • Please
  • Majors

• I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • World
  • Done
  • Kind

• I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I'm not going to get in the way of that.

  

  Mike Patton Faith No More
  • People
  • Poet
  • Musical

• It's long been a desire of ours to work with John Travolta and to have the opportunity to produce his return to movie musicals after three decades. It's a dream come true. This is our dream cast for the film, and bringing Travolta back into a musical after 30 years is so gratifying.

  

  Neil Meron
  • Work
  • Long
  • True

• I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.

  

  Max Roach
  • School
  • Home
  • Teacher

• I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Hours

• Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Believe
  • Grief
  • Tragedy

• Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Creation
  • Mozart
  • Keyboard

• I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Brunette

• When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Mean
  • Cry
  • Pretending

• Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Water

• The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • May
  • Amazing
  • Humble

• I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

  

  Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Musical

• If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • Car
  • Painting
  • Identity

• I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Song
  • Words

• I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Musical
  • Prostitute

• The part that I really love is musical, but also part of it is cultural. That’s just a fact. The culture that usually surrounds me, I’ve always found it very vain, narcissistic, and immature. There’s just nothing rebellious, as far as I’m concerned, about a leather jacket.

  

  John McCrea Cake
  • Part
  • Cultural
  • Surrounds

• The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.

  

  Doris Day
  • Life
  • Period
  • Cheerful

• Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Play
  • Stories
  • Turns

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