Musical Quotes - Page 28

• My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.

  Trey Parker

  New York, School, Oklahoma

  Interview with Jeff Onto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Needs, Language

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• Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

  Mandy Patinkin

  World, Theater, Sondheim

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• Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• I would do a musical, but I can't sing.

  Amanda Peet

  I Can

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• I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

  Joe Perry

  Soul, Diaries, Realizing

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• When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

  Liz Phair

  Beauty, People, Listening

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• I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Hollywood, Belts

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

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• I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

  Harold Prince

  Thinking, Contemporary, Defined

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• It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

  Harold Prince

  Nice, Night, Worry

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• The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

  Harold Prince

  Art, Theatre, Form

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• We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

  Harold Prince

  Way, Process, Theater

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• What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

  Harold Prince

  Missing, New Work, Theater

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• I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.

  Harold Prince

  Moving, Responsibility, Successful

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• I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

  Harold Prince

  Age, Golden, Flourishing

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• My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Car, Parent, Fans

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• Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Artist, Rocks

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• I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

  John C. Reilly

  Song, Dad, Kids

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• I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

  Buddy Rich

  Night, Thinking, Play

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• I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Mean, Guitar

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• I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

  Alan Rickman

  Art, Boys, Cbgb

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• I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

  Paul Robeson

  Long, People, World

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

  Kid Rock

  Suicide, People, Sound

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• 'Flying Down to Rio' established RKO as a leader in musical film production throughout the 1930s. The film helped to rescue the studio from its financial straits and it gave a real boost to my movie career.

  Ginger Rogers

  Real, Careers, Leader

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

  Andy Rooney

  Music, Careers, Air

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.264, Random House

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