Musical Quotes

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

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.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.