Top 1200 Broadway Musical Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.

When I was at Lakeridge High School, in my junior and senior years, my choir and theater department raised money so we could go to New York and see Broadway shows. It really changed my life.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

Broadway musicals like 'Ain't Misbehavin',' 'Eubie' and 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar' depict blacks having a light, wonderful time and that was just not so for blacks in the '20s and '30s.

There's nothing more romantic after not seeing your husband for four months than to have our first night back together, on a Broadway stage, with 12 million people watching.

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five - this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't cut anything off, don't limit yourself. Give it a good listen: you might find something in that goofy Sun Ra noise, that dissonance. Before I learned 'official musicality' - which you should avoid at all costs - I listened to some Sun Ra and Yusef Lateef and John Coltrane and that's where 'Journey to the Center of the Mind' came from. When you intentionally and aggressively pursue musical communication with those powerfully impactful musical geniuses, you will pick up something.

Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic

There is always a musical exchange happening between me and my sons.

I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never get bored.

Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

I've been a live musician since I started my musical career.

I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

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

I can't see anybody wanting to go to 'Tank Girl: The Musical!'

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five- this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16…but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

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

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

With '8 Diagrams,' I just skimmed the surface of musical exploration.

Walter Matthau made all the big money and he was wonderful as Oscar Madison on the stage. You couldn't beat him. I know because I replaced him on Broadway. He was just delightful.

The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.

When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.

I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them.

When 'Newsies' first came out, it just crash-landed with a thud; it won a Razzie for worst song of the year, and I felt such embarrassment. Fast-forward, and it's a hit on Broadway, and I win a Tony for the score!

It's interesting that the wondrous 'Hamilton,' which I could not be more ecstatic about, has taken a long time to perfect to bring it to Broadway. And it wouldn't have been possible if it was developed in the commercial theatre from the get-go.

A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either

You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.

I used to build lofts in SoHo back when there was nothing there. I had a stoop on West Broadway between Prince and Spring. My partner and I would sit there, eat dinner, and watch the world go by.

The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career.

I was in my last year in high school when I began to think of becoming a dancer. I had never seen a Broadway show; we never even read the theatrical reviews.

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

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

I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

My musical journey with A. R. Rahman is filled with personal milestones and realisations.

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

Art is really more musical than it is visual.

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

The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.

You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument.

The relationship between the models and the musical performers is very important.

Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.

I've always loved musical theatre. It's my favorite thing in the world to do.

The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

Broadway is amazing because you're performing for such an intimate group of people. You're living in the moment and whatever happens happens, and you go on. You can't say cut and redo it, you have to be on the whole time.

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.

I'm not much of a musical-goer; they don't really appeal to me.

Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records.

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

I hate this expression, but - "thinking outside the box," in terms of how to market and put a Broadway show out into the - allow it to reach the target audience, who can't necessarily spend $120 to come see it.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.