Musical Quotes - Page 22

• People can talk about the death of social life or whatever; it's not necessarily how I see it. It's more musical in the sense, where it's a feeling about the place I live, slash, who I am in the place.

  Alec Soth

  People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right note. But not alter the score of the music, just emphasize the note correctly.

  Ben Kingsley

  Trying, Term, Rhythm

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general. I always had a fascination with that sound. It's a mixture of the idea that something could be going wrong along with the idea of bending constrained, Westernized music out of tune. But because I wasn't copying an idea, and it just came from somewhere inside me, it felt like a birth of something that most people didn't understand at the time.

  Kevin Shields

  People, Birth

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you want to have the right to have that conversation with your agent - "I know you sent it to me, I know you like it, but I just really think it's terrible" - you need to have the full details about script. You don't want to be in that situation where your agent says, "What about after the first 20 pages where it turns into a psychedelic musical?" And you're like "What? I thought it was an action-rom!"

  Henry Lloyd-Hughes

  Thinking, Psychedelic, You Like It

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I created a paradigm by which I could succeed, and up until recently it was the only way I could do it. I could not take the brunt of standing in the light of my own work. There was a Faustian bargain I could not make. I could have you mock me for wearing funny clothes that I could deal with. But I couldn't deal with actually standing in the light of my own musical power. That's the difference now. It's like, okay, no more of that, you're done.

  Billy Corgan

  Done, Succeed, Okay

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. Side one and side two? That's a product of vinyl. But that's not necessarily dramatic form - you could argue that that was three acts.

  Annie E. Clark

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When Derek Miller and I started working together, we had a very clear vision for the sound of the band. It was one which combined our favorite musical elements: driving guitars, bombastic beats, and female vocals. We've always been interested in making music that is essentially pop but that steps outside of the traditional formula into a stranger, more abrasive world. We love that our music makes people dance with complete abandon and feel empowered. It's very uninhibited music, and that's what makes it so fun.

  Alexis Krauss

  Fun, People, Vision

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Terrible, Manifest, Stage Fright

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Each musical finds its own way.

  Quiara Alegria Hudes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical matrix or trope, the sounds of the words arranged in a way that heightens perception, a tunefulness that more clearly defines and transfers the feeling I'm after to the reader.

  Jack Driscoll

  Feelings, Perception, Moments

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My musical style changes with every song that I make. I jokingly referred to it one time as 'emo thug', and I think that kind of stands because it's got equal parts of the aggressive confidence of the Dre beats I grew up listening to, and the emotion of like... emo music!

  The Last Skeptik

  Song, Emo, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Popular music of the last 50 years has failed to keep in step with advances in musical theater, namely Stephen Sondheim. But the two have grown apart so that popular music is based more than ever on a rhythmic grid that is irrelevant in musical theater. In popular music, words matter less and less. Especially now that it's so international, the fewer words the better. While theater music becomes more and more confined to a few blocks in midtown.

  Stephin Merritt

  Block, Music Is, Popular Music

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You feel the camaraderie that you're all driving around in vans, you know, engaged in musical enterprise. It's pretty much the same for everybody except for the 40 minutes that you're on the stage. Other than that, I do feel like we're off on our own path. It's sort of exciting.

  Jonathan Meiburg

  Path, Driving, Exciting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everyone was so anti-wanting to be anything else. I guess a lot of bands say that but I think, for us, that notion - combined with our musical influences - ended up making us uncategorizable.

  Brian Degraw

  Thinking, Influence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender. It takes you probably five to six minutes to build trust with an audience. A musical you can build trust in three notes. Boom, boom, boom, you're instantly seduced. So musicals have this easy potency, but generally, in my opinion, they waste them, because a musical is incredibly hard to do.

  George C. Wolfe

  Journey, Opinion, Surrender

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's very important for an audience to know where they are and why they are there in a musical. It allows them to relax and follow this form that operates in shorthand. So the economy of the form, in many respects, is why a lot of screenwriting is so sleek. Because the visuals are where the explosions happen.

  George C. Wolfe

  Important, Relax, Economy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.

  George C. Wolfe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain what's going around us either directly or by analogy and trying to create a parallel, an analog, sometimes musical, sometimes dramatic, that might be truthful.

  Andy Gill

  Thinking, Trying, Truthful

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think touring in America lives up to the myth, in all ways of what touring is. So many pretty cities, and it's pretty easy, compared to touring other places. I'm fascinated by America. Great crowds - people are very musical. I've been getting better throughout the tour in America, relating to people. At the start I was a bit stiff, and I'm starting to relax.

  Erik Hassle

  Thinking, People, Get Better

  Source: wwd.com

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• I was involved in the civil rights movement way back in the late '50s and through the '60s and '70s. I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. Martin Luther King spoke, and I remember the thrill I felt when we were introduced to him. To have him shake your hand was an absolutely unforgettable experience. Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena.

  George Takei

  Political, Civil Rights, Vote

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We like the idea of being a little divisive without making it into some kind of philosophical musical approach, and maybe we can convert some people to our view of the world.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Philosophical, People, World

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• We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and confront people.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  People, Annoying, Terrorist

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• The main joy I have in owning or being a part of my own label is the platform I've created to really push other artists and this other kind of musical muscle I get to exercise, it's not just me as a creator of music but me as a curator. That's been really exciting and I do get to have the autonomy and control and all those things with my releases, but now I get to go and find artists that I really love and like and share them with the world too.

  Jennifer Lee

  Exercise, Artist, Joy

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• I wasn't looking to be an Indian brass band, but to be a band that reflected my complete identity as an American. The America I was born and raised in intersected with people of all ethnicities and beliefs and that, coupled with my parents' instilling of good values, made me the individual I am now. Within Red Baraat, there are varied musical backgrounds and personalities and that lends itself to many great thoughts and ideas; it's what makes social science, or more precisely, social interaction so interesting to me.

  Sunny Jain

  People, Interesting, Personality

  "With Red Baraat, Always a Dhol Moment". Interview With Emily Loftis, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

  Amy Adams

  Thinking, Just Being, Fantasy

  "Amy Adams On Set Interview THE MUPPETS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 20, 2011.

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