Musical Quotes

• The original is more musical than the club mix. I always enjoy using melodies and find it crucial for albums to have variety in styles.

  

  Christian Smith
  • Albums
  • Original
  • Styles

• J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• Wherever it came from, the musical came with its hair mussed and with an innocent, indolent, irreverent look on its bright, bland face.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • Hair
  • Innocent
  • Indolent

• 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
  • Long
  • Style
  • Views

• I started producing in 1992 at the age of 15, when I found out music could be made with the help of a computer. I come from a musical family, but was always the family member not as good as the others. So once I found out I could release the music that was stuck inside my head through a computer, I knew I found what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

  

  Laidback Luke
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Guy

• It's very exciting. This is my first musical and I'm very proud to present my music from the last 30 years.

  

  Frank Farian
  • Present
  • Exciting
  • Musical

• 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

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

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Musical
  • Prostitute

• Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit.

  

  David LaMotte
  • Past
  • Writer
  • Favorite

• Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

  

  Roger Taylor Duran Duran
  • Different
  • Together
  • Journey

• The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • World
  • Good
  • Music

• There has been studies looking at like musical talent and it shows that there is actually a really large genetic component involved.

  

  H. A. Berlin
  • Study
  • Talent
  • Musical

• 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

• My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Ambition
  • Ability
  • Honest

• The first group of songs which I give, on any program, are songs which I sing to please myself. They represent my musical taste.

  

  John McCormack
  • Songs
  • Sing
  • Group

• I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Singing

• Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

  

  Sebastian Bach
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Honor

• Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance.

  

  Cornelius Cardew AMM
  • Mind
  • Direct
  • Relevance

• The only thing that really inspired me for singing was the movie and musical 'Phantom of the Opera.' I went to see it in the theaters, and I loved it so much. And when I got home, I started singing the songs around the house, and my mom thought I was really good, so she asked me if I wanted to do a talent competition. And I said, 'Yes, definitely.'

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Home
  • She

• I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Friend
  • Boy

• I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.

  

  William McKeen
  • Book
  • Stories
  • Terrific

• It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Process
  • Sound
  • Numbers

• All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.

  

  Tuomas Holopainen Nightwish
  • Possess
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Escapist

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