Popular Musical Quotes

#1. While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.

Bell Hooks

#2. Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

George Herbert

#3. Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular and not as bad as some would have you believe. That is, unspeakably awful but mercifully brief.

Simon Munnery

#4. The pieces that have survived, the ones that we all love, were not all popular in their time. Just look at Beethoven's late string quartets. The music that the musical community selects, however, is usually the very best.

David Finckel

#5. Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.

Michael Pitt

#6. A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater.

Lisa Randall

#7. You got de keys to de kingdom.

Zora Neale Hurston

#8. To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

Sam Keen

#9. Musical shows are really popular because there are lots of talented kids out there that can sing and dance.

Justin Chambers

#10. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#11. It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater ... it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.

Kurt Weill

#12. My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

James Blunt

#13. Colors were dynamite for us.

Andre Derain

#14. School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

Ray Dalio

#15. West Side Story was a highly popular and successful musical play and now is a similarly well-received motion picture. (I would think that it could also be used shrewdly as a document for discussion in Sunday Schools, in place of some of the ridiculous curriculum materials now in use).

William Stringfellow

#16. People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school.

Campbell McGrath

#17. Order is a slippery thing: it's in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it's freedom from violence and intrusion.

Chris Hayes

#18. When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.

Karen DeCrow

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

Nicholas Sparks

#20. I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

Allison Williams

#21. Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding musical style that's actually quite complex as far as popular songs are concerned.

Arlo Guthrie

#22. The key to opening the secret of humanity is to love and understand the beauty of it.

Debasish Mridha

#23. She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#24. The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity.

Tracy Chapman

#25. Griping is for those without a plan of action...

Neal Shusterman

#26. I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

Alejo Carpentier

#27. 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 Klosterman

#28. Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#29. Now you're discovering the great secret of great writing: one line of true feeling is worth a thousand pages of clever thinking.

Menna Van Praag

#30. My favorite fighter is Anderson Silva.

Ryan Guzman

#31. I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.

Tom Lehrer