Top 1200 Musical Style Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks.

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

I don't have musical theory or great chord knowledge, but what I have got me where I am.

I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.

I am concerned about the musical theater, selfishly, because I love it.

Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

By the grace of God, I'm the only person in my family with any musical ability.

There's not too many offers that come my way about being in a musical.

Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

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

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

My childhood shaped the person I became. It was artistic, musical and left-wing.

I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband.

A lot of people feel that 'Music Man' is a good movie musical.

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

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

In a Broadway musical, a scene sometimes breaks into a song and vice versa.

A.R. Rahman is not a musician, he is a musical scientist, and when he gives advice, you need to take it seriously.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

My first musical dream was to be a guitar player, and believe me, it's still in there.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

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

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.

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

I'm very thankful to San Diego for the musical opportunities it gave me.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

I've been working with Riccardo Tisci from Givenchy.It's been a long collaboration, and I don't think it's going to stop now. It's very important to me. Riccardo is younger than me, so it's great to have someone new teaching you in everything, not just in fashion. I'm teaching him in French style, what a women's style is, but he's teaching me in all of these different styles of music.I love this new world for me. It's refreshing and nourishing to keep learning about new things.

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

I grew up in a very musical family, but music was not encouraged as a career. It was a hobby.

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music.

My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.

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

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. I will buy a chair for my house. What style of chair are you gonna buy? Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived. I mean, why bother choosing a chair because it looks a certain way? Because there's gonna be something about that chair that says something about you.

One day, I would like to be a part of a stage production, preferably a musical.

I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of beings on earth that are structurally different from us, there can be no different style of fighting. Why is that? Because we have two hands and two legs. ... because of styles, people are separated. They are not united together because styles become law.

I think my first audition was for a local musical. It was quick. I didn't get the role.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

My dream job would be starring in a lead role on a Broadway musical.

The fact that it's hard to create an original British musical doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it.

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

I fell in love with Bruce Lee after I watched his movies, and I wanted to become a kung-fu practicer, and I would like to be someone like Bruce Lee. That's why I learned kung-fu, and that's why I picked the wing chun style, because it's his style. That's why I decided to be an actor, to go into show business, because of him.