Musical Quotes

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Freedom, Pain, Rock

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David Thoreau

Justice, Sweet, Injustice

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
Johnny Depp

Minute, Chances, Approached

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts

God, Experience, Brain

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
Andy Rooney

Good, Bad, Enough

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.
Freddie Mercury

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.
Harvey Fierstein

Time, Everything, Movie

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.
Harvey Fierstein

Different, Through, Play

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Work, May

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Frank Zappa

Change, Rock, Style

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
E. O. Wilson

Music, Important, Human

When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
Steve Martin

Everything, Serious, Comedy

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
Stendhal

Woman, Light, Moment

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
Stendhal

Earth, Present, Race

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
Paul McCartney

Mom, Dad, Looking

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Christopher Walken

Training, Comedy, Theatre

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
Bill Watterson

Life, Laugh, Thought

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.
Liam Neeson

Thought, Play, Looking

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
Lady Gaga

Great, Speaking, Performer

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
Jean Cocteau

Nose, Pieces, Forced

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.
Ted Nugent

Family, Great, Hate

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.
Johnny Cash

Writing, Same, Sense

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

Between, Vision, Jazz

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles

Music, Childhood, Roots

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
Art Blakey

Art, America, Try

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
Jon Bon Jovi

Love, Art, Experience

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Paul Klee

Life, Art, Whether

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.
Robert Plant

Learn, Intervals

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'
Hugh Jackman

Movies, Done, Down

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