Musical Quotes - Page 11

• My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in bands, they could play music. And we had a nine piece band there in Tyler, and I joined them when I was about, oh, 15 years old and traveled all over Texas in that band, playing for the elite oil people. Hah. And um, I was making about 50 bucks a night, and uh, it taught me, they taught me how to find my timing and to learn the songs that I wanted.

  Carl Gardner

  Song, Teacher, School

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• You know, like, there's songs like "Valerie" and "Bang Bang Bang" that I was so proud of. And, you know, the level of success that they had - if they were little cult hits meant that, you know, I could sellout Webster Hall or Williamsburg Musical Hall or the El Rey theater in LA. Like, that was having made it to me. So the thought of having a number one song in my own career, like, never even registered.

  Mark Ronson

  Song, Careers, Numbers

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him was hearing Vivaldi, hearing the sort of manipulation of small cells of information and patterns in order to generate sort of huge blocks of harmony.

  Mahan Esfahani

  Block, Thinking, Cells

  "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

  Charles Busch

  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

  Elaine Paige

  Dream, Writing, Theatre

  "SPECIAL PREVIEW: InDepth InterView - Elaine Paige". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2010.

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• If Hitler were alive the best punishment would be to put him out-of-town with a new musical.

  Donna McKechnie

  Punishment, Would Be, Alive

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.

  Ruthie Henshall

  Long, Age, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I almost got my degree so I don't need rap. And my family is the furthest thing in the world from musical.

  JD Era

  Rap, Degrees, Needs

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Yeah, for me there are other challenges that aren't musical too. Like you just don't have as many people to feed off of energy wise, you are loading in and out and you are driving yourself more. Most of the challenges that count are the musical ones. I don't know why people come out to the shows, but I never think that it is to hear me play the guitar and sing. I think it must be in the writing and the presentation, which are the areas that I feel most comfortable.

  Stephen Kellogg

  Wise, Writing, Thinking

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

  Blixa Bargeld

  Artistic, Backgrounds, Knows

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

  June Millington

  Mean, Band, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I rented a summer home in the winter on Long Island, I took long walks, and then I ended up moving to Woodstock. It was a fertile musical area and time, and I played with a lot of different musicians there, including getting into women's music, and I ended up playing with Cris Williamson.

  June Millington

  Summer, Moving, Home

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's funny because I consider myself a musical scavenger. What that means to me is that I usually avoid feeding on the fresh meat. I kinda go for the meat that's kinda been forgot for a while.

  Colin Munroe

  Mean, Meat, Feeding

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• In essence, we string theorists have been trying to work out the score of the universe, the harmonies of the universe, the mathematical vibrations that the strings would play. So musical metaphors have been with us in science since the beginning.

  Brian Greene

  Essence, Play, Work Out

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

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• The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory are vibrating the particles, vibrating the forces of nature into existence, those vibrations are sort of like musical notes. So string theory, if it's correct, would be playing out the score of the universe.

  Brian Greene

  Reality, Would Be, Vibrations

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

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• The person that always comes to mind, and it's odd now because we've become pals, is Ben Folds. I've always considered him like a musical older brother, from afar, in the sense that I always felt I had a much better understanding of what he was singing about five years after I was listening to it.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Brother, Years, Understanding

  "#ManCrushMonday: Jason Sudeikis". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 29, 2016.

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• One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of albums. I got to meet him the first time I saw them in concert at The Bottleneck, a great bar in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, he was the musical guest my first or second week as a writer on SNL. I was like, "I don't know if you remember me?" And he was like, "Oh my god, yeah!" He's a big photography fan, as am I.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Photography, Couple, Kansas

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.

  William Fitzsimmons

  Guitar, Feelings, Picks

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a musical snob. I feel like if you're going to record music and you're going to be a singer, you have to be able to sing.

  Warryn Campbell

  Artist, Dancer, Albums

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

  Guy Maddin

  Needs, Planning, Should

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

  Antony Hegarty

  Writing, Emotional, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  Kate Bush

  Brother, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• To be in a beast of a musical (I mean it's huge!) gave me a sense of I don't want to say "a sense of confidence" because you already have a sense of that to get out on stage. But I think I just have a better sense of myself. It was a learning process, I really had to conquer a lot of fears and my own little struggles. I feel a little self-empowered, like "bring it on!" Bring on the next thing because if I can conquer this, I can conquer that.

  Kendra Kassebaum

  Struggle, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and I just did this Offenbach operetta at the LA Opera. I love it. I just love it. For me, it's like a great mesh of musical theatre and my classical oboe background to be standing on these huge stages with a full orchestra and all the opulence. I'm a complete sucker for the over-the-topness.

  Jason Graae

  Theatre, Oboes, Roles

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• When I was a little younger, I really did love musical theatre in the same hopeless dorky way that she does. I was obsessed with Jesus Christ Superstar and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.

  Sarah Steele

  Jesus, Home, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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