Musical Quotes - Page 15

• We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that charted. That was so long ago.

  Nikka Graff Lanzarone

  Song, Night, Long Ago

  "BWW Interview: The Ensemblist Podcast Returns for a Second Season". Interview with Ashlee Latimer, www.broadwayworld.com. September 4, 2016.

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• No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can just have the feeling of those words together, and that you know them and can sing along with that melody with your fist up in the air. It's a wild vehicle for sentiment, because it's so powerful on the musical front.

  Sarah Harmer

  Powerful, Philosophy, Air

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

  Alan Bishop

  Thinking, People, Perception

  Interview with Andy Beta, believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• I grew up in a really musical house where all of my brothers and sisters could sing, but I couldn't sing. Not only could I not sing, I couldn't hear pitch. I was totally tone deaf - legitimately, one hundred percent tone deaf. Nevertheless, I loved music.

  Dominic Balli

  Brother, House, Tone

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Art, Expression, Levels

  Ralph Vaughan Williams (2008). “Vaughan Williams on Music”, p.41, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I love to act, so the only way I could act was through community theatre and they would just do musicals. My musical upbringing was show-tunes and it sucks and I have been trying to get away from it ever since.

  Thomston

  Community Theatre, Trying, Tunes

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• My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.

  Meera Menon

  Country, Growing Up, Dad

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• [The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Running, World, Stage

  "Whoopi Goldberg Is the Fashion Week Muse We Need". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 12, 2016.

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• I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.

  Mark Stoermer

  Thinking, Ifs

  "Mark Stoermer's Spell". Interview with Christina Cambria, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2016.

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• I think speaking Italian affects your whole body movement. It's so musical and animated and passionate.

  Juliet Aubrey

  Italian, Thinking, Passionate

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.

  Robert Hass

  School, Mean, Cutting

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Daughter, Dream, Wings

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.

  Kreesha Turner

  Jamaica, People, Dancing

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the hallway, theater students, musical students, art geeks. And it was a kindergarten in the truest sense of the world: a children's garden where I was able to sort of really come into myself as an artist, as a person, sexuality issues - like, all of this became something where there was a firming-up and a knowing that went on.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Children, School

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.

  Pat Metheny

  Country, Rocks, Political

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Sports, Reading, Discipline

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

  Cass McCombs

  Song, Long, Singing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I thought about what I wanted to do besides playing violin and singing backup in a band. Don't get me wrong, playing and singing in That Dog was really fun, but I wanted to work on other musical projects and sing more. So I started a vocal project, i.e. Imaginaryland.

  Petra Haden

  Dog, Fun, Singing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are so many international musical connections here, in Amsterdam. And some of them are amazingly successful.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Successful, Connections, Amsterdam

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think my dream would have been to be a solo artist. But it didn't work out like that, and I also love to sing lots of musical stuff; I was really good at that, I've got a big voice. I dropped into musical theater and really enjoyed it and I sang for about nine years of my career.

  Luke Evans

  Dream, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not saying every musical theater actor can do film or television, but a lot of them can. A lot of them are brilliant actors who absolutely don't need to sing to prove their ability and don't get the opportunity.

  Luke Evans

  Opportunity, Needs, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.

  Luke Evans

  Looks, Actors, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On Broadway and in the United States it's very different - people crossover all the time into television. I think that we'll get there [in London] in the end, but it has to start with who comes to see you in the musical and whether they can see beyond the dancing and the singing.

  Luke Evans

  Thinking, People, Dancing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm looking for the surprises, you know, and the unexpected moments of technology, the unexpected moments of musical creation.

  DJ /rupture

  Technology, Unexpected, Surprise

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Dre couldn't have given me those words to write, and he couldn't have given me that voice to sing. I couldn't have given him that musical talent or the ability that he has. What we made came from putting things together. I've always said that.

  Michel'le

  Writing, Voice, Together

  Source: www.elle.com

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