Musical Quotes
I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.
Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.
Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.
People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.
Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you're creating a musical event.
Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.
Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.
I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.
If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.
I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue
Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.
First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well.
Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns
I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.
As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.
