Musical Quotes

My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.

I've got so many musical personalities, I could probably get treatment for it.

I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found.

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

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

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

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

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.