Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claudio Monteverdi

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

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.

Clemence Poesy

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

Cliff Martinez

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

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.

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.

Winnie Holzman

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

Dan Brown

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

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

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.

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.

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.

Charlotte Rampling

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

Billy Sheehan

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

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.

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.

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.

Walter Becker

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

John Cage

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.

John Frusciante

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

John Carpenter

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

John August

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical.

Geezer Butler

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in

Edgard Varese

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

Edie Brickell

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

Kurt Cobain

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

Luke Evans

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.