I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.
Chuck D.

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

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

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
George Takei

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.
Kid Rock

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

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
Stephen Sondheim

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Stephen Sondheim

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

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.
Erykah Badu

It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.
James Taylor

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.
Levi Strauss

We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.
Ben Harper

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
Ben Harper

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

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.
Sean Connery

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.
Kenny G

Silence is more musical than any song.
Christina Rossetti

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
Neil Patrick Harris

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