Musical Quotes

• I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Art
  • Political
  • Decision

• I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Thinking
  • Punk
  • Ramones

• People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.

  

  Page Hamilton
  • People
  • Song
  • Musical

• Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

  

  Andrew S. Gilbert
  • Jazz
  • Transform
  • Styles

• Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and you do the lights and the sets and you make the machine of the production work. It takes usually about ten days in the theater, two or three weeks if it's a really big musical. I mean, it's hell on earth. You just sit around forever while they adjust the lights. And every playwright with half a brain runs for the hills when tech starts because it's so boring, and you don't want to talk to the director because the director is running this giant machine.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Running

• My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

  

  William Golding
  • Father
  • Play
  • Musical

• We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of different ideas. It was like this gigantic musical laboratory that we were going to every day. I love that record, I think that's one of the high watermarks of us as a band.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.

  

  Moshe Safdie
  • Failing
  • Performing
  • Complexes

• There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Musical
  • Chances
  • Serial Killer

• For three days this summer, people will come to Chicago to witness musical history in real time.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • History
  • Chicago

• Another way of working is setting deliberate constraints that aren't musical ones - like saying, "Well, this piece is going to be three minutes and nineteen seconds long and it's going to have changes here, here and here, and there's going to be a convolution of events here, and there's going to be a very fast rhythm here with a very slow moving part over the top of it." Those are the sort of visual ideas that I can draw out on graph paper. I've done a lot of film music this way.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Long
  • Musical
  • Deliberate

• We stand for musical individuality. That's all we stand for.

  

  Matthew Charles Sanders Avenged Sevenfold
  • Musical
  • Individuality

• I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind of a bit of a musician, but I've often doubted my musical ear. If someone sings me a melody, I have to improvise on that melody, because I can't retain the information they've given me. That's why I still practise today, I suppose, because I still feel inadequate.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Today
  • Kind
  • Player

• My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Students

• We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Home
  • Artist
  • Inspired

• Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Style

• I'd like to make all different kinds of movies. I don't think it would make sense though for my second film to walk straight into a musical even though I'd like to.

  

  David Michod
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Make

• I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Thinking
  • Evolution
  • Musical

• The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Scripture
  • Lines
  • Prose

• People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong - they may be mistaken.

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • People
  • Soul
  • Maybe

• We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.

  

  Bent Sæther
  • Musical
  • Hamsters

• My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Soul
  • Taste
  • Moved

• It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Film

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