Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Lou Williams

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

Nicholas Sparks

Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

Luke Wilson

As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.

Ned Rorem

So far as musical pedagogy is concerned - And by extension of musical creation - Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived

Nathan Lane

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

Mark Twain

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Paul Morley

I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

Idina Menzel

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

Kris Jenner

I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.

Sergei Prokofiev

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

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

Mike Tyson

I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I'm doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.

Johnny Marr

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

Megalyn Echikunwoke

If someone said, "Here, you have your pick, you can do either a musical, Moulin Rouge type of movie, where you sing and dance, or an action movie, or a Shakespearian or Elizabethan movie," I would definitely love to do a movie that was based on a musical, where I would get to sing, dance and act, all at the same time.

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.

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.

Martin Short

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

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.

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.

Miles Davis

Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

Miles Davis

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

Miles Davis

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

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.

Liberace

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

Mandy Patinkin

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

Mandy Patinkin

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Johannes Rau

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.