Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reggie Watts

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

Adam Lambert

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

Oscar Isaac

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

Alex Trebek

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

Dwayne Johnson

I'll do a musical. An ass-kickin' musical!

Claudio Monteverdi

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

Dolly Parton

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Chuck Klosterman

Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

Chuck D.

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

Christopher Walken

My background is in musical comedy.

Christopher Walken

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

Christopher Walken

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

Amos Oz

Different musical instruments provide for different music.

Anne Stevenson

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.

Danny Strong

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

Danny Elfman

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

Ambrose Bierce

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

America Ferrera

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

Alexis Korner

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

Amiri Baraka

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Amanda Peet

I would do a musical, but I can't sing.

Beck

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

Robert Fripp

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

Steve Martin

I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

Sting

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.

Ray Charles

I was born with music inside me

Michelle Branch

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Mary Timony

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

Johnny Depp

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Joel Murray

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

Hans Frank

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.