Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronnie Wood

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

Unless you're a musical team. If you're a musical team then that structurally works. But if you're two individuals it can be tricky.

Beck

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.

Joe Jonas

Reuniting with my brothers musically has been really incredible.

Marsha Norman

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

Rachel Cusk

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

America Ferrera

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

Danny Strong

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

Danny Elfman

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

Alex Trebek

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

Dave Eggers

Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)

David Lindsay-Abaire

I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

Dolly Parton

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Alexis Korner

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

Amiri Baraka

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Amanda Peet

I would do a musical, but I can't sing.

Chuck Klosterman

Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

Chuck D.

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

Christopher Walken

My background is in musical comedy.

Christopher Walken

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

Christopher Walken

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

Amos Oz

Different musical instruments provide for different music.

Anne Stevenson

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

Ambrose Bierce

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

Jason Aldean

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

Janina Gavankar

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

Uzo Aduba

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

Brian Eno

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Bob Dylan

The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.

Bridget Regan

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday.

Edward Hoagland

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !