Musical Quotes

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

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.

You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.

The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

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.

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

I would do a movie musical.

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.

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.

My background is in musical comedy.

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

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.

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.