Musical Quotes

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

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.

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

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

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

Music is part of being human.

Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.

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

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

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.

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

In my opinion I do not think I am a better guitarist than Ace, I honestly think we're both different, and we both brought something unique to the musical.

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.