Musical Quotes - Page 29

• One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

  Jessica Savitch

  Tired, Directors, News

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

  Jill Scott

  Writing, Hip Hop, Pulse

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• But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.

  Amy Sedaris

  People, Dresses, Know How

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• I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

  Sarah Shahi

  Growing Up, College, Chicago

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

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• In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

  Ravi Shankar

  Respect, Culture, Instruments

  "Ravi Shankar Dead: Indian Sitar Virtuoso Dies At 92". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Singing, Tunes

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

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• I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

  Ed Sheeran

  Gigs, Easier, Standpoint

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

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• We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.

  Rob Sheffield

  Ideas, Ratios, Sometimes

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• Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

  Rob Sheffield

  Emotional, Guitar, Games

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• Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sad, Song, Sorrow

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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• Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

  Archie Shepp

  Ideas, Culture, Sacred

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• We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

  Carly Simon

  Jazz, Bigs, Theater

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• If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Trying, Sound

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• Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Comedy, Brainstorming, Lateral Thinking

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• I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

  John Philip Sousa

  Country, Believe, Land

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• I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.

  Steven Spielberg

  Growing Up, Book, Stories

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• I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Firsts, Woody, Process

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• Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

  Ringo Starr

  Sound, Looks, May

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• The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

  Stendhal

  Race, Events, Earth

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• I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

  Stendhal

  Music, Sweet, Thinking

  Stendhal (1952). “To the happy few: selected letters of Stendhal [pseud.]”

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• My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

  Rod Stewart

  Soul, Moved On, Taste

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• I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

  Sting

  Needs, Tails, Language

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• Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

  James Surowiecki

  Rocks, Punk, Accurate

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• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  Taylor Swift

  Careers, Style, Quality

  "Taylor Swift: Billboard Music Award Wins Were a 'Wonderful Feeling'" by Ray Rogers, www.billboard.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

  James Taylor

  Music, Stars, Pain

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

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