Musical Quotes

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.
Hugh Jackman

Famous, America, Play

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.
Hugh Jackman

Time, Long, Thought

But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.
Hugh Jackman

Done, Difficult, Anyone

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
Brian Eno

Knowledge, Sometimes, Knew

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
Brian Eno

Music, Experience, Thought

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
Brian Eno

Music, Work, Found

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
Brian Eno

Free, Actually, Jazz

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
Tori Amos

Idea, Characters, Driven

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
Elvis Presley

Movies, Lost, Same

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.
Daniel Radcliffe

Car, Parents, Call

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
Billy Corgan

Alive, Ideas, Chemistry

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.
Ryan Gosling

Feeling, Real, Comedy

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
Fred Allen

Play, Instrument, Amazement

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
David Byrne

Attitude, Rather, Punk

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
David Byrne

Music, Down, Made

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Education, Father, Incredible

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
Mel Brooks

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
Jessica Savitch

Tired, Reason, Left

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.
Susan Orlean

Music, Past, Found

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
Howard Gardner

Brain, Different, Language

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
Sting

Music, Language, Needs

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.
Joan Jett

Soul, Felt, Kinds

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.
Joan Jett

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.
Nicole Kidman

Alone, Win, Knew

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.
David Duchovny

Succeed, Theater

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Else, Proud, American

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.
Christina Ricci

Good, Mean, Enough

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
Francis Ford Coppola

Work, Father, Sometimes

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.
Adam Lambert

Try, Style, Trapped

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.
Reba McEntire

Love, Work, Care

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