All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.
Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being surprised.
The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.
I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.
Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.
Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.
Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.
"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment.
I would have to recommend the chorus of 'Lightning Crashes' for just about everyone that needs a little something, a little comeback.
One of the arrangements I'm really proud of is '21 Guns' because the chorus has this descending bass line with a suspended type of progression that immediately screamed 'Bach' to me.
Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.
I don't like drums dictating the song; like when you hear a fill and then you know the chorus is coming up.
On the song 'Step,' the chorus is Ezra is singing into my laptop with the laptop microphone, and you can hear the trains going by my apartment, but we liked the quality of that recording.
When I was in grade school, I remember singing in a chorus where they actually had two parts going. It was very easy for me to pick out the harmonies, and I kind of just went with it.
People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.
That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.
If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.
I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.
He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!
Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!
Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.
I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.
I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
I've tried writing darker, more serious songs, but they don't go anywhere. Everything revolves around the chorus for me.
I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.
I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'
I often find myself writing little ditties I can imagine becoming rap songs. Not the actual rapping part, just the chorus.
I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.
My basic setup is my Ibanez Fireman guitars and for pedals, the TC Electronic MojoMojo is the mainstay of my board, along with a Catalinbread Calissto Chorus.
In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.
I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring.
'A Chorus Line' never dies; it just keeps opening doors and giving back to me - but there was a time when I considered it an albatross around my neck.
With 'Sierra,' this mean girl had all these kids bullying me - and I wrote the first verse and chorus the night before Tae and I came to Nashville.
I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.
Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.
Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing.
Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of the Chorus,' as Marilyn Monroe's father.
I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'
I started as a hoofer and all-round chorus girl. I did my first ballet lesson when I was three, then trained as a dancer and went into pantomimes and summer seasons. Acting came later.
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.
I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.
I don't really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It's more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation with noise.
I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.
I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.
When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.
I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.
For the chorus of 'Secrets,' we used The Romantics' 'Talking in Your Sleep' and 'Pale Shelter' by Tears for Fears. It's like hip-hop: just grab it.
Even if you want something so badly, without talent, you can't even get the opportunity. You remain as the chorus for the rest of your life.
Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.
'Muntazir' has a very feel-good vibe to it. It's Strings' signature composition, especially the pre-chorus. I thoroughly enjoyed lending my vocals to it.
I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.
I'll have a chorus pedal or a flanger or an echo, that kind of thing. But as far as specific pedals, the one that's really been a mainstay is the TC Electronic MojoMojo.
Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.
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