Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scarlett Johansson

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

Shinichi Suzuki

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Sean Paul

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.

Lesley Garrett

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

Laura Riding

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

Stephen Malkmus

The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.

Tavis Smiley

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

Svetlana Alliluyeva

A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.

Ringo Starr

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

Swoosie Kurtz

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

Rupert Holmes

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

Steve Goodman

Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

Steve Martin

I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

Robbie Robertson

Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

Suzi Quatro

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

Reggie Watts

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

Oscar Isaac

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

Jeff Tweedy

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

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,

Mark Indelicato

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

Tre Cool

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Paul Whiteman

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Mel Brooks

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

Mary Oliver

Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.

Peter Warlock

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

Mike Figgis

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

Mike Figgis

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

Robert Fripp

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

Robert Fripp

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Rod Stewart

You can keep your Streisands.

Robert Lopez

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.