Musical Quotes - Page 30

• It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

  James Taylor

  Song, Emotional, Discovery

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

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• Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

  James Taylor

  Culture, Brazil, Ireland

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

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• We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

  Neil Tennant

  Would Be, Theater, Pops

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

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• I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

  Ashley Tisdale

  Movie, Numbers, Actors

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• My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

  Alex Trebek

  Development, Frank, Died

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• I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Art, School, College

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• I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

  Steve Vai

  Art, Believe, Listening

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

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• We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.

  Steve Vai

  Home, Artist, Tools

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

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• I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

  Steve Vai

  Thinking, Artist, Peers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago.

  Steve Vai

  Play, Years, People

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

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• I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Track, Usurpers, Sides

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'I am somewhat imprisoned by my fabulous career'". Interview with Fiona Sturges, www.independent.co.uk. April 14, 2012.

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• The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.

  Tom Waits

  Impact, Tree, Would Be

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

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• You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.

  Tom Waits

  Party, Thinking, People

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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• Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

  Christopher Walken

  Training, Theatre, Actors

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• I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

  Christopher Walken

  Teenager, Actors, World

  "Christopher Walken Interview - HAIRSPRAY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2007.

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• I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

  Christopher Walken

  Business, Thinking, Years

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• I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

  Christopher Walken

  Movie, Independent, Starting Over

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• My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

  Christopher Walken

  Actors, Be Kind, Comedy

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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• I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

  Bill Watterson

  Track, Laughing, Interesting

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• People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Jesus, Thinking, People

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• By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

  Lawrence Welk

  Business, Years, People

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• We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.

  Lawrence Welk

  Father, Pumps, Instruments

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.

  Joss Whedon

  Song, Thinking, Glasses

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• But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

  E. O. Wilson

  Dancing, Important, Culture

  "E.O. Wilson Is on Top of the World". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1998.

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• That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Love, Film, Stage

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