Famous Quotes & Sayings

They wrote a very interesting musical score to it. It's not just old standard Western songs at all. It runs the gamut of musical types.

Jonathan Groff

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

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.

Elliott Carter

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

Elaine Paige

Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

John Cullum

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

Leo Ornstein

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

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.

Gustav Mahler

Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.

Gustav Mahler

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

Jimmy Cliff

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Josh Hartnett

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

Joshua Bell

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Leona Lewis

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

Karl Barth

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

Oscar Peterson

Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age.

Kanye West

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

Julian Ovenden

It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.

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.

Ozzy Osbourne

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

Paul Epworth

Every musical scene has a cycle.

Neil Tennant

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

Marsha Norman

I feel that I speak the musical language.

Nikki Sixx

Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.