Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Herman

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

Gregory Harrison

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

Harold Prince

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

James Galway

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

Glenn Tipton

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

Jeremy Sisto

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.

Frank Zappa

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

Elton John

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

Elle Fanning

I would love to do a musical!

Ian Brown

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

Nathan Lane

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Cam Newton

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

Beth Grant

My daughter's favorite musical is 'Wicked,' which she has seen hundreds of times - she even worked as an usher at the Pantages so she could see it over and over. Her dream is to play Elphaba.

Clemence Poesy

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.

Cliff Martinez

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

Dwight Yoakam

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 vehemently

Colin Hay

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.