Top 1200 Musical Talent Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.

My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

If it wasn't for musical theatre I wouldn't have met my wife, McFly wouldn't exist, none of it would have happened.

I have a degree in vocal performance, I'm a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.

The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

My talent is numbers.

I was a big talent.

It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.

I have no talent for certainty.

I almost got my degree so I don't need rap. And my family is the furthest thing in the world from musical.

The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

I did some musical theater and studied a little bit of acting as well.

I'm loaded with talent.

I was all personality and no talent.

If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.

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

Playing with my sister - we always had musical instruments lying around the house.

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

Bappi Lahiri has a voice that alone is loud and musical enough to sway people.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

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

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain.

With every musical project, I ended up feeling more enriched by the experience.

You can learn and enrich yourself through the process of knowing a different musical culture.

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.

Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

I don't have talent. I have tenacity.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance.

I'm making my Broadway musical debut at the age of 73 - it's a kind of interesting career arc.

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

I have a talent, I can sing.

I come from a musical family but never tapped into it until I was thrown into a DJing gig during college.

The talent is in the choices.

Sondheim has been a part of my musical collective since I was eight. I was a dramatic little kid.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever.

In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.

As we develop, I just see us following our heart on this musical journey.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

I was in a musical for a while, and I sing around the house all the time, but I don't ever think of myself as a singer.

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

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

Talent is seductive.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.

'Zara Thehro' stemmed from a thought of marrying two separate thoughts - musical and conceptual.

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.

I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.

I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.

I have a major love for musical theatre, including a lot of stuff I don't get to do very often.