Musical Quotes

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.
Richard Rodney Bennett

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.
John Landis

Good, Real, After

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.
Brenda Lee

Media, Television, Guess

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.
Rudolf Nureyev

Love, Time, Beautiful

I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.
John Woo

Life, Beautiful, Makes

I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.
Danielle Dax

Women, Important, Wanted

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

Process, Magic, Precious

'High School Musical' is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.
Monique Coleman

Great, Best, School

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.
Monique Coleman

School, Night, Kids

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

Work, Show, Won

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

Experience, Ambition, Tremendous

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.
Mark Edwards

Music, Time, Giving

Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.
Charlie Day

Person, Yeah, Considered

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

Far, Guys, Opera

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.
Evan Hunter

Win, Working, Modest

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
Elfriede Jelinek

Music, True, Words

A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.
Ian Williams

Saying, Challenge, Off

Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to learn how to tap,' I'd practice till I was blue in the face. I would do it because I'm so headstrong and think I can do anything. But just to show up and sing a little ditty, no.
Leslie Bibb

Said, Learn, Show

Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
Victoria Legrand

Love, Find, Partner

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.
Billie Piper

Love, Funny, Capacity

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

Work, Single, Theater

That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.
Gunther Schuller

Parents, Sense, Wanted

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.
Nelly Furtado

School, Remember, Made

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.
Olivier Messiaen

Music, Made, Play

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
Barry Hannah

Music, Writing, Give

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

Sound, Sounds, Orchestra

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.
Chick Corea

Love, Music, Doubt

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.
Jesse Eisenberg

Love, Movies, Hard

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
Oscar Peterson

Single, Idea, Possible

I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.
Laura Benanti

Amazing, Bad, Nothing

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