Top Musical Quotes Collection
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Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.Collection: Musical
I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.Collection: Musical
We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.Collection: Musical
Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.Collection: Musical
The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.Collection: Musical
I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of musicCollection: Musical
A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.Collection: Musical
It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.Collection: Musical
For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.Collection: Musical
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehementlyCollection: Musical
Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.Collection: Musical
Mozart is the musical Christ.Collection: Musical
What appealed to me about the whole production is how big it is. I don't do musicals because I don't sing very well. But this is the biggest stage thing I'll do that's not a musical.Collection: Musical
I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.Collection: Musical
There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.Collection: Musical
A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.Collection: Musical
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.Collection: Musical
A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.Collection: Musical
"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.Collection: Musical
You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.Collection: Musical
If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.Collection: Musical
The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.Collection: Musical
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.Collection: Musical
Mozart died too late rather than too soon.Collection: Musical
It's very important for an audience to know where they are and why they are there in a musical. It allows them to relax and follow this form that operates in shorthand. So the economy of the form, in many respects, is why a lot of screenwriting is so sleek. Because the visuals are where the explosions happen.Collection: Musical
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.Collection: Musical
You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets.Collection: Musical
Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age.Collection: Musical
I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.Collection: Musical
Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.Collection: Musical
There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz band, or a choir, and use every element that the musical tool box can offer. The world of music I love so much, and I can change the costume depending on the part, and I'm actually in the film.Collection: Musical
Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep ListeningCollection: Musical
I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.Collection: Musical
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.Collection: Musical
The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.Collection: Musical
I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.Collection: Musical
I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.Collection: Musical
Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.Collection: Musical
I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.Collection: Musical
Every musical scene has a cycle.Collection: Musical
I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.Collection: Musical
Text first, rhythm second, melody third.Collection: Musical
Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.Collection: Musical
We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.Collection: Musical
It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.Collection: Musical
Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.Collection: Musical
When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.Collection: Musical
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.Collection: Musical
It's the process, not the result.Collection: Musical