Musical Quotes - Page 24

• If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!

  Joan Collins

  Cheer, Glasses, Lucky

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• When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

  Sean Connery

  Nice, Thinking, Scotland

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• I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

  Tre Cool

  Trouble, Drummer, Fitting

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• I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Brother, Father, Literature

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• I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

  Billy Corgan

  Ideas, Alive, Input

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• I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.

  Park Chan-wook

  Hollywood Films, Bigs, Hollywood

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• I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Dream, Thinking, People

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• I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

  David Duchovny

  Succeed, Theater, Musical Theater

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• But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Missing You, Wish, Kind

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  Umberto Eco

  Sadness, Fate, Destiny

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• I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

  Zac Efron

  School, People, Hats

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• I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

  Zac Efron

  Song, Kids, Writing

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• We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.

  Zac Efron

  School, Eight, Week

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• I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

  Zac Efron

  Artist, Singing, Training

  "All New Q&A with Zac Efron". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Albums, Theater, Musical Theater

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• I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

  Brian Eno

  Free Jazz, Want, Muscles

  "When Brian Eno met Ha-Joon Chang". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2012.

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• One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

  Brian Eno

  Moving, Interesting, Littles

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• We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

  Brian Eno

  Writing, Space, Modern

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• All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

  Gloria Estefan

  Art, Successful, Ideas

  Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2013.

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• My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Song, Father

  "Gloria Estefan: 'Like Coming Home, But Not to the Old Cuba'". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2007.

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• My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mom, Kings, Kids

  Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

  James Fenton

  Book, Men, Hearing

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• With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music from various genres. So when you do 'Big Day Out' and there are all these different musical acts, you see the same people in your crowd that were there for a completely different artist.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Artist, People, Levels

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Years, Two, Five

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• But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Song, Play, Ideas

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