Musical Quotes - Page 27

• Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Risk, Benefits, Reap

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• Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Style, Substance

  "Bibi, Moses, and Churchill" by Rabbi Michael M. Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2015.

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• I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Attitude, Philosophy, Writing

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• When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Littles, Firsts

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• I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Hip Hop, Hips, Bells

  "Meet Tatiana Maslany of TV's Newest Thriller, 'Orphan Black'". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 29, 2013.

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• Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

  John Mayer

  Home, Atlanta, Alive

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• Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

  Paul McCartney

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  "Paul McCartney Blows 'Kisses' To His Father's Era". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 29, 2012.

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• I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

  Reba McEntire

  People, Care, Comedy

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• Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

  A. J. McLean

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "My Gay Interview With A Backstreet Boy: ‘I’m The Fag Hag’". pridesource.com. August 28, 2013.

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• I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

  Freddie Mercury

  Dear

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

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• My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

  Ethel Merman

  Running, Brother, Careers

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

  Marisa Miller

  Stars, Hero, Rocks

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• I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

  David Mitchell

  Thinking, Notes, Eyeballs

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• I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

  Moby

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Interview With Neil Strauss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2009.

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• I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook.

  Moby

  Song, Thinking, Play

  "With Destroyed, Moby Makes Sense of Shattered Musical Landscape". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 17, 2011.

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• How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.

  Cory Monteith

  School, Lunch, Glee

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• I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

  Mandy Moore

  Real, Ambition, Theatre

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• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  Mandy Moore

  Florida, Singing, Theatre

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• Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

  Roger Moore

  Blessed, Musical Ability, Looks

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• I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

  Liam Neeson

  Movie, Vegas, Play

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• I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

  Ted Nugent

  Dog, Hate, Hunting

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• Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.

  Gary Numan

  Song, Rip, Numbers

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• I come from a musical kind of family.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Kind

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

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• There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Mirrors, Needs

  "Phil Ochs in Concert". Live album by Phil Ochs (introduction to the song "The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo"), March 1966.

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• In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

  Susan Orlean

  Past, Years, Cds

  "One Thing, From Susan Orlean: “Partagez”". www.newyorker.com. March 9, 2009.

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