Top 100 Musical Quotes
#1. I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously,
Terry Wogan
#2. During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to Christ.
TobyMac
#3. Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'
Ben Horowitz
#4. One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.
Marco Beltrami
#5. But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.
Michael Tilson Thomas
#6. I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.
Jenna Ushkowitz
#7. I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.
Brian Wilson
#8. A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.
George Santayana
#9. Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain
#10. I think I was affected quite a bit by musical and creative influences that go all the way back to my childhood.
Jeffrey Osborne
#11. I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.
Jonathan Glazer
#12. Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.
John Irving
#13. I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.
Jeff Tweedy
#14. 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.
Jeremy Sisto
#15. All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while others guess what it is, since all my humming sounds the same. Musical instruments have always seemed like alien artifacts to me, even as I really admire anyone who can play one.
Jeff VanderMeer
#16. I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast.
Girl Talk
#17. Frankly I don't listen to lyrics (a problem in that I apparently work in musical theatre) I just want a good tune that doesn't require the use of too much grey matter.
Christian Campbell
#18. Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.
Roger Moore
#19. I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
Delta Burke
#20. Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.
Shusha Guppy
#21. My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.
Clemence Poesy
#22. I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.
Emmy Rossum
#23. I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.
Maddie Ziegler
#24. I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.
Nellie McKay
#25. Do you ever sing in the car?"
"Generally not. But I am driving a police car."
"I think people would like a singing policeman. Makes life seem more like a musical. Like Foot-tastic."
"You can talk for a long time about nothing."
"I certainly can, you charming man!
Maureen Johnson
#26. Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
Emmylou Harris
#27. Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
A. J. McLean
#28. Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
Maceo Parker
#29. Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four.
Travie McCoy
#30. I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical.
Spike Jonze
#31. Country music as we know it would be vastly different if it weren't for George Jones. He's in our musical DNA. All country artists will have to figure out how to even begin to live up to his kind of legacy. 'Honky Tonk Heaven,' here he comes ... though we're not ready to let go.
Pam Tillis
#32. I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
Sabrina Lloyd
#33. I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.
Robert Moog
#34. I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.
Anna Kendrick
#35. I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.
Lou Gramm
#36. I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
Doug Stanhope
#37. I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
Mandy Moore
#38. The more people who come from musical backgrounds and go into promotion, production, songwriting, A&R, plus get their business head together, the better. They'll not only understand the business aspect, they'll also have a true passion and ear for how quality is represented musically.
Harvey Mason Jr.
#39. I was a professional ballerina. After becoming an actress, I did a lot of theater, which included musical theater. The first musical play I did was Murray Schisgal's 'The Pushcart Peddlers.'
Juliet Landau
#40. Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.
Chris Cornell
#41. The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
Ednita Nazario
#42. Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
Gary Burton
#43. I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.
Lunice
#44. I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.
Ozzy Osbourne
#46. There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#47. No matter how many scores I've written, the next project will hopefully be completely different. As hard as it is, I'm always trying to stay fresh, not repeat myself, and come up with original musical ideas and ways of scoring.
John Keltonic
#48. You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.
Elaine Paige
#49. Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation,
but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
Frederic Chopin
#50. I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.
Jim Sullivan
#51. a word, as often happens, can be like a musical worm in the mind and invite repetition. But
Alexander McCall Smith
#52. I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going deep down into life and not caring a damn ...
P.G. Wodehouse
#53. The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.'
One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw.
Conan O'Brien
#54. Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had before, new in colour and form - spiritual sensations, as it were, hitherto unproved
George MacDonald
#55. Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him.
Eric Weiner
#56. I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#57. I think of you, of the lake, of the city, of the burning days on the shore, in the sand, of the shadowy paths, of the musical breath of the air. The water is quiet, blue, I'd like to lie in a boat in the reeds, I don't want to speak, everything around me will tell you what I'm sensing.
Ingeborg Bachmann
#58. I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
Laura Benanti
#59. I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.
Laura Benanti
#60. I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.
Robert Moog
#61. I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.
Oliver Sacks
#62. You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it.
Trey Parker
#63. The person that always comes to mind, and it's odd now because we've become pals, is Ben Folds. I've always considered him like a musical older brother, from afar, in the sense that I always felt I had a much better understanding of what he was singing about five years after I was listening to it.
Jason Sudeikis
#64. Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
Stanley Jordan
#65. Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.
Robert Bringhurst
#66. The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.
John Mayall
#67. I got to sing with Placido Domingo ... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris.
Linda Ronstadt
#69. To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Michael Jackson
#70. I wanted to make a more Romanesque film that told a story over a long period of time - this one spans 45 years. I had a great desire to make another musical, but this time I wanted to be more ambitious.
Christophe Honore
#71. The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
Cameron Mackintosh
#72. The sky on a clear night is a living, pulsating thing. The stars are like musical notes turned to light, and, like notes, they shimmer and swell and fade and fall. The painters have never captured it - but they never will until some painter teaches his colors to dance.
Barbara Quick
#73. I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.
Kris Jenner
#74. I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way.
Cliff Martinez
#75. Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.
Margaret Atwood
#76. I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.
Jill Scott
#77. We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.
Bent Saether
#78. Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
Paul McCartney
#79. I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.
Danielle Dax
#80. For the social phobic, any kind of performance - musical, sporting, public speaking - can be terrifying because failure will reveal the weakness and inadequacy within. This in turn means constantly projecting an image that feels false - an image of confidence, competence, even perfection.
Scott Stossel
#81. I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.
Amanda Marshall
#82. Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.
Max Heindel
#83. Musical theater can save you, even if only for two or three hours at a time.
Michelle Knudsen
#84. Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The music we made, and our performances, always had a visual component. I could never play an instrument, so these other elements compensated for that a little.
Michael Dumontier
#85. Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.
Nikola Tesla
#86. I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.
Kathleen Hanna
#87. Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch 3', 'Cagney and Lacey', 'Wonder Twins Activate From Two Hot Broads', 'Little House on the Prairie: The Musical: The Movie'.
Amy Poehler
#88. Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
Iggy Pop
#89. My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.
Rod Stewart
#90. I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.
Dwayne Johnson
#91. I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.
Wendy Starland
#92. I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
Alan Lightman
#93. Whether we say the Names of the Lord indirectly, jokingly, as a musical entertainment, or even neglectfully, it will still immediately relieve one from the reactions of unlimited sins.[43] The Mahamantra started to do its job on us.
Sriram R
#94. I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.
Horace Silver
#95. 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.
Molly Ringwald
#96. I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.
Miroslav Vitous
#97. The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
Diane Paulus
#98. My own rapping skills are quite good, actually. You get this thing, I think it's called Songify or AutoRap, and you talk into them, and they auto-tune it and make it into a quite interesting musical number. And I got one where it builds it into a rap.
Aidan Gillen
#99. Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
Gary Kemp
#100. There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
Esperanza Spalding
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