Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Tre Cool

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Wayne Rooney

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

Virgil Thomson

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Zachary Levi

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

Warren Zevon

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Waylon Jennings

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

Tom Wopat

I had no real specific dream, other than I really wanted to do musical comedy. Even before that, when I was a small child, I wanted to be a singer.

Steven Hall

I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

Lykke Li

The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.

Miles Davis

Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

Miles Davis

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

Miles Davis

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

Kurt Cobain

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

Mandy Patinkin

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

Mandy Patinkin

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Johannes Rau

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

Larry Gelbart

If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

Liberace

You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.

Jon Landau

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The amount of money one needs is terrifying...

Loni Anderson

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

Liza Minnelli

And I'm starting work on a musical set in New York.

Ennio Morricone

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.

Emmy Rossum

I love music. I'd love to go on Broadway and do a musical there. I just like to kind of go with whatever's inspiring at the moment, and kind of follow that as far as I can.

Oliver Sacks

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

Oliver Sacks

Music is part of being human.

It's not a band, because they don't have musical instruments.