Short Musical Sayings

#1. Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.

Guru Gobind Singh

#2. I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

Ciaran Hinds

#4. The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

Anthony Burgess

#5. The inner and poetic illumination of his life came from me.

Anais Nin

#6. You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

Ray Bradbury

#7. The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#8. My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

Ethel Merman

#9. ...the history of the Broadway musical is the history of short Jewish men yelling at each other.

Jack Viertel

#10. I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

David Friedman

#11. One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short, cute and chubby, and Dad used to call me his 'little fat sausage.' But I always knew I had musical talent.

Suzi Quatro

#12. A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

Martin Short

#13. When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.

S.M. Stevens

#14. Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

Confucius

#15. Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

Damien Chazelle

#16. Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Benjamin Franklin

#17. 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.

Karl Barth

#18. Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'

Edward Abbey