Musical Quotes - Page 23

• I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

  Amy Adams

  School, Numbers, Hallways

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• Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

  Jason Aldean

  Georgia, Rich, States

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• I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.

  Gary Allan

  Country, Cutting, Teeth

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• I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Play

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• I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

  Tori Amos

  Song, Character, Ideas

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• Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.

  Trey Anastasio

  Air, Joy, Feelings

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• I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

  Loni Anderson

  Acting, Exotic, Brunette

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• There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

  Erykah Badu

  Memories, Atoms, Kind

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• Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Symphony, World

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• I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.

  Antonio Banderas

  Home, House, Toys

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• I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

  Todd Barry

  Funny, Character, People

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• Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Native American, World, Proud

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• I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.

  Mary J. Blige

  Thinking, Giving, Fans

  "Mary J. Blige Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 10, 2011.

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• What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Beautiful, Mean, Beauty Everywhere

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• I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

  Sarah Brightman

  Focus, Theatre, Intimacy

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• I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

  Mel Brooks

  Stage, Know How, Knows

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• Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

  Louise Brown

  Hate, Play, Sometimes

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• Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Interesting, Soap, Levels

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• Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

  David Byrne

  Attitude, Style, Punk

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• I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Car, People

  Interview with Anne Pasternak, creativetime.org.

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• The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

  Nick Cave

  Cells, Body, Floats

  "Nick Cave Talks Grinderman Sequel". Interview with Kevin O'Donnell, www.rollingstone.com. August 5, 2010.

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• The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

  Nick Cave

  Breathing, Challenges, Important

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• My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

  Ray Charles

  Music, Roots, Childhood

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.111, Da Capo Press

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• I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

  Kurt Cobain

  Sacred, Equipment

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• The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

  Jean Cocteau

  Noses, Pieces, Ears

  "An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 130, 1981.

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