Musical Quotes

• 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

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

  

  Cornelius Cardew AMM
  • Mind
  • Direct
  • Relevance

• I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of stuff that was so powerful that I just needed to find it. I have no regrets.

  

  Andy Kim
  • Vision
  • Musical
  • Needed

• It's a video world now, you know? It's not a musical world. It's a video world. I can watch videos. I see videos, you know, Britney Spears, she's sexy. I like to watch her videos. It's not like the music is what I'm hearing. It's different now. But it's not my world. It's the world of young people and they have what they want and they have what the technology and the society produces as a result of all these advancements that have occurred. And the in the future we'll have something else. Maybe we'll have holograms and, you know, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.

  

  George Brecht
  • Nothing
  • Musical
  • Instruments

• 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

• 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

• I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Heard
  • Hills
  • Bores

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

  

  Jean Philippe Rameau
  • Nature
  • Experiences
  • Endows

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• You have to create space to pull back and keep it musical.

  

  Jay Weinberg Against Me!
  • Space
  • Musical

• 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

• When I was a little younger, I really did love musical theatre in the same hopeless dorky way that she does. I was obsessed with Jesus Christ Superstar and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.

  

  Sarah Steele
  • Theatre
  • Christ
  • Hopeless

• I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Thinking
  • Worried
  • Timing

• If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

  

  Wilhelm Reich
  • Movement
  • Watching
  • Channels

• 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

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