Musical Quotes - Page 17

• I do try to pick music that is from different worlds and typically doesn't flow together. When you do that, you get songs with conflicting messages, but for me, it's on a musical level first and foremost.

  Girl Talk

  Song, Trying, Together

  Source: uproxx.com

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• In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.

  Emma Stone

  Hands, Way, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.

  Quentin Crisp

  New York, Men, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes.

  Bill Walton

  Hero, Grateful, House

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Stars, Ends, Bigs

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.

  Debbie Reynolds

  New York, Stars, Cities

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music. So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time. You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.

  Boy George

  Sex, Teenager, Rocks

  "Karma is good to chameleon Boy George". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• The only difficulty is that I'm playing to two audiences, and it's too bad the noise detracts from the show, because it's a great show. I've seen my own self out there, and it's a very good musical show. Sometimes the show gets lost in the hysteria and sometimes it doesn't.

  George Michael

  Self, Two, Hysteria

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [My father] was not a musical man.

  George Michael

  Father, Men

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• [My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.

  George Michael

  Mother, Song, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What is usually called 'intelligence' refers to the linguistic and logical capacities that are valued in certain kinds of school and for certain school-like tasks. It leaves little if any room for spatial intelligence, personal intelligences, musical intelligence, etc.

  Howard Gardner

  School, Tasks, Littles

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

  Howard Gardner

  Thinking, Interpersonal, Strongest

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.

  Vivek Shraya

  Writing, Wanted, Deliberate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I took the name originally as a kind of disguise because I didn't want people to know I was about to embark on a s****y musical career that would last five months. And a lot of people took funny names back then.

  John Wesley Harding

  Names, Careers, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Pippin had an opening number called "Magic to Do," and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all of the sets. As a kid I thought, "Wow, I'm seeing onstage what a MGM musical would look like live." It was that good, and it was directed by Bob Fosse.

  David Copperfield

  Kids, Numbers, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They don't have to come from some far off place.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Writing, Thinking, Knows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Girl, Song, I Like You

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.

  Miguel

  Growing Up, Thinking, Diversity

  Source: us.napster.com

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• The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.

  Miguel

  Thinking, Hands, Space

  Source: us.napster.com

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• Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.

  Miguel

  Hip Hop, Foundation, Taste

  Source: us.napster.com

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• I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Style, Musical Education

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• Maybe in my personal life, but as far as my career, I've been offered some humongous things in my career and didn't take them. I look back and think, oh man, well I'd have been well off monetarily wise, but artistic wise I don't know. I'd have to say, personally, in my personal life, yeah, but in my musical life, on twenty-twenty hindsight I would say just take the good with the bad.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Growing Up, Listening, Different

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which to write, but actually the things that strike people about music, are very hard to write about, and its sonic connections, it's a sense of harmony that I think we all have even if we don't know how to express it - it's something musical, it's synapse connections in our brain.

  Ben Watt

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

  Varg Vikernes

  Ambition, Honest, Ability

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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