Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucas Grabeel

I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.

Gavin Bryars

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

Oliver Sacks

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

Oliver Sacks

Music is part of being human.

Reggie Watts

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

They tried to sell the movie by its story. All the TV spots and trailers were story-driven, because many people still think musicals don't have serious plots.

John Elkington

This is a tremendous area. Is there a musical heritage?

Hans Frank

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

Gerard Butler

I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.

Jerry Herman

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

Ernest Newman

If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of The Creation.

Harold Prince

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

Harold Prince

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

James Galway

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

Elton John

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

Elle Fanning

I would love to do a musical!

Jerry O'Connell

Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It's not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around.

Jeremy Jordan

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

Gary Burton

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

Frederic Chopin

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

Freddie Mercury

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

Christina Milian

I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.

Christina Aguilera

I'm very eclectic in what I like and what I listen to. But my favorite musical ever is "The Sound of Music." That was actually one that inspired me to sing.

Frank Zappa

Donnie and Marie can both take a bite.

Frank Zappa

Michael is Janet and Janet is Michael.

Frank Zappa

They were wearing smelly blankets, they looked like Donovan fans.

Franz Liszt

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

Chrissie Fit

For whatever reason, acting took the front seat but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.

Chris O'Dowd

I come from a musical kind of family.

Jean Cocteau

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

Gregory Harrison

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.