Top 1200 Musical Style Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

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

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.

Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show.

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

I was in the final running for the Zac Efron role in 'High School Musical.'

Because I am the biggest musical theater nerd, I worship Sondheim.

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great, but the road after the revolution will be longer, the work greater and more arduous. This must be made clear now in the Party. The comrades must be helped to remain modest, prudent and free from arrogance and rashness in their style of work. The comrades must be helped to preserve the style of plain living and hard struggle.

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality.

I've got so many musical personalities, I could probably get treatment for it.

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

We're all sort of aware what 'SpongeBob the Musical' could be in the hands of the wrong people.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

Two of my biggest musical inspirations are Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell.

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

I owe so much of my musical growth to my exploration and performance of Carnatic music.

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.

After I left the R.S.C., I did a musical, 'Masquerade,' where I played a rabbit. I was the lead.

To be here drinking a Coke can influence the process of musical creation as much as anything.

I don't see life without a musical career. I really enjoy doing what I do.

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

I think you need to be very careful of getting 'stuck' in musical theatre.

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

Writing style is something is a consequence of who you are. I think that I had a certain propensity for a style that I recognize in my early work, but that doesn't mean I didn't have to learn certain basics and the longer you write the better you get. The rhythms come from you. If the rhythm seem to echo the music, then that's delightful if people see that, but it's certainly not something that's intentional on my part. I'm trying to be as clear and precise as I can be and at the same time, I'm trying to be eloquent and witty and entertaining. I mean, writing should be a pleasure.

I don't think taste is about money. As your career develops, you're able to decide what to spend your money on. I live in a really small apartment in London, and that's a choice. I live at The Carlyle in New York, but it's not big. It's about making choices of style over flashiness. People's style is subjective and mine happens to be around the classical because I feel comfortable with that, and because of my background. I'm probably living in the wrong time. I should have lived in the Thirties or the Fifties.

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

I'm not going to say that I'm some musical genius, but I've always loved music.

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

I'd love to do a musical on the lines of 'Salangai Oli,' 'Sankarabharanam' and 'Sindhu Bhairavi.'

To be honest, it was a little bit of a surprise to me that my Broadway debut was a musical.

I told my parents about my musical dreams. They let me try my luck.

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.