Musical Quotes - Page 26

• I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

  Hugh Jackman

  Movie, Two, People

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called The Boy from Oz, where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

  Hugh Jackman

  Boys, Play, America

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. April 29, 2003.

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• Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Expression, Vision, Jazz

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• Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Art, Expression, Vision

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• I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

  Wyclef Jean

  School, Band, Matter

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• A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

  Joan Jett

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

  Joan Jett

  Opportunity, Soul, Kind

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• My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

  Grace Jones

  Kings, Dad, Father

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• I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.

  Anna Kendrick

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

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• I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

  Nicole Kidman

  Winning, Awards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

  Paul Klee

  Life, Art, Expression

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.61, Parkstone International

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• Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Spiritual, Growth, Rebirth

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• I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Mean, World

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• My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Father, Grateful

  "Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop And Honoring The Old School". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 24, 2013.

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• Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.

  Jon Landau

  Kings, Accomplishment, Creative

  Jon Landau (1972). “It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal”

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• To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

  Jon Landau

  Musical Ability, Culture, Links

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• If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

  Jaron Lanier

  Mind, Body, Computer

  "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.

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• Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

  Hugh Laurie

  Piano, Taught, Formal

  "Hugh Laurie Puts Blues In The House". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 18, 2013.

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• I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.

  Amy Lee

  Dog, Vets, Video

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• I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

  John Lydon

  Ideas, Fabulous, Band

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• I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Thinking, Musical Ability, People

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• I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Talking, Years, People

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• At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

  Seth MacFarlane

  College, Boston, Stuff

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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• The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Giving, Buzz, Theater

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• No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

  Shirley Manson

  Idols, Role Models, Comfort

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