Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Jason Moore

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

Joel Murray

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

Dan Brown

For me, writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument.

Billie Piper

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.

Al Yankovic

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

David Bowie

When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.

Rita Moreno

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

Brian Ferneyhough

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

Brett Somers

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

Archie Shepp

And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

Ben Nicholson

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

David Gilmour

No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.

Nathan Lane

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Cam Newton

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

Kelis

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

Slash

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

A. J. McLean

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

Action Bronson

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

Mike Nichols

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Cliff Martinez

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

Dwight Yoakam

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently

Colin Hay

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.

Oliver Goldsmith

With other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

Clemence Poesy

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.

Beth Grant

My daughter's favorite musical is 'Wicked,' which she has seen hundreds of times - she even worked as an usher at the Pantages so she could see it over and over. Her dream is to play Elphaba.

Imelda May

I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.