Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikki Sixx

Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.

Mary Lou Williams

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

Nicholas Sparks

Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

Ned Rorem

So far as musical pedagogy is concerned - And by extension of musical creation - Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived

Nathan Lane

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

Paul Morley

I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.

Paul Whiteman

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Mel Brooks

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

Mary Oliver

Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.

Peter Warlock

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

Mike Figgis

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

Mike Figgis

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

Molly Ringwald

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

Teddy Thompson

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

Scarlett Johansson

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

Shinichi Suzuki

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Sean Paul

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.

Lesley Garrett

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

Laura Riding

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

Tavis Smiley

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

Joshua Bell

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Leona Lewis

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

Paulo Costanzo

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

Rachel Cohn

There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, and as I flip through his musical life, getting to know his tastes, I must acknowledge that not only am I not frigid, but I also may be multi-orgasmic.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

Laura Benanti

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

Lara Pulver

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Leo Ornstein

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Karl Barth

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

Oscar Peterson

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.

Kanye West

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

Julian Ovenden

It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.