Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn Frey

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

Tom Wopat

I had no real specific dream, other than I really wanted to do musical comedy. Even before that, when I was a small child, I wanted to be a singer.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

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.

Martin Luther

The devil does not stay where music is.

Marilyn Hacker

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Ray Charles

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

Ray Charles

I was born with music inside me

Smokey Robinson

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

Thelonious Monk

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Michelle Branch

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Michael Tilson Thomas

It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.

Ennio Morricone

We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

Emmy Rossum

I love music. I'd love to go on Broadway and do a musical there. I just like to kind of go with whatever's inspiring at the moment, and kind of follow that as far as I can.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

Mary Timony

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

Pat Metheny

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

Johnny Depp

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

Larry Gelbart

If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

Liberace

You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.

Jon Landau

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The amount of money one needs is terrifying...

Johnny Marr

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

Liza Minnelli

And I'm starting work on a musical set in New York.

Meat Loaf

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

John Elkington

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

Sting

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

Steve Earle

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Stephen Sondheim

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Molly Ringwald

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

Paulo Costanzo

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

Rachel Cohn

There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, and as I flip through his musical life, getting to know his tastes, I must acknowledge that not only am I not frigid, but I also may be multi-orgasmic.

Teddy Thompson

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.