Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

Iggy Pop

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

Iggy Pop

Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

George Bernard Shaw

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

Gemma Chan

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

Mark Indelicato

I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.

Jerry Jeff Walker

Texas is where I found my musical self.

E. O. Wilson

The show is particularly significant because it was the same show, performed in 1989, that was the first musical in our new theater at its present location,

Bob Ezrin

That's just as important when you talk about a musical culture. From our point of view as long as music is rising in that region, there's hope.

I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

It's not a band, because they don't have musical instruments.

Steven Hall

I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

It's smart. A lot of people who don't like musicals like this one.

Carlisle Floyd

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

Jaron Lanier

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

Carly Simon

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

Jesse Eisenberg

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

Frank Zappa

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.

Graham Nash

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

Kirk Hammett

My musical tastes change every week.

Julia Barr

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

Guillaume Canet

I know that one day I would love to do a musical.

Glenn Tipton

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

Ian Brown

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

Katharine McPhee

I can understand why guys wouldn't be into 'Glee.' You know, that's a pretty heavy musical show. That show does, like, six songs in an episode.

Isabelle Huppert

Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

Isaac Stern

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Guy Maddin

I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

Glenn Gould

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

Glenn Frey

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

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

Mandy Patinkin

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.