Musical Quotes

Musical Quote of the day

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.

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.

I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.

My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

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

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

It's just life, so keep dancing through.

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

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’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.

I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

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

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.