Top 1200 Musical Influence Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.

I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared.

Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.

Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence on me personally have been basically entirely unaware of any such influence and made their chief concern their personal devotion and obedience, and the pleasure of God in the hidden things of their lives.

There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day.

People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it as a musical.

There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful; and second, influence is subtle. You wouldn't let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it.

We're in the business of influence. And if we're going to be in partnership with anybody, I want it to be with people who have amazing access and influence.

The only enduring influence we have to offer others is the influence God has in our own lives.

The influence of culture and arts is much larger than the influence of economy sometimes.

I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical.

AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.

The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical.

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

Michael Bloomfields' musical understanding was broad and deep, and he knew how to turn that understanding into communication .. his influence was phenomenal ... his story is about those kinds of things and about the people he knew and the audiences he thrilled and the times he had...

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

I really think that the Jersey Boys musical - and this is just my opinion - lends itself to being cinematic in some way, because its a jukebox musical; the characters break into song only for the scene transitions.

Anything can be a musical if it makes sense for it to be a musical.

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.

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

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

I really think that the 'Jersey Boys' musical - and this is just my opinion - lends itself to being cinematic in some way, because it's a jukebox musical; the characters break into song only for the scene transitions.

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits.... A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.

R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

Producing a one-hour show that has to reinvent musical numbers, and interpret those musical numbers with a large cast, is difficult.

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.

If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway.

I would not rule out a musical. What I will categorically say is that I will not be in a 'Peaky Blinders' musical.

The reality is that people need to be coaxed toward a musical. They need to understand why it's a musical.

In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California where I was a member. It was a smash hit in this small theater.

'Cabaret' was one of the first pieces of musical theater I saw that showed the possibilities of what musical theater can do.

When I might be on a business trip, a lot of people are partying and they may be drunk or under the influence of something that I'm not under the influence of, and that might influence their actions. I'm not even blaming them, but being in the club and not knowing what everybody's motives are, I have to take precautions damn near every week, especially when I go out of town.

My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought 'Grease' was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

I always wanted to do musical theater. That was where I saw my life going since I was a musical theater major in college before I went to Pentatonix.

Being CEO of AMD is a tremendous opportunity to influence the industry and influence the future of computing.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you.

I'll do a musical. An ass-kickin' musical!

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your head as you're writing it.

Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.

I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.

I think a lot of things do influence me, but the influence mechanism is as such that these things dive into your brain and bury themselves into your subconscious and you're never quite sure where and how they're going to emerge. I don't think I really take direct influence.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.