Musicality Quotes

• Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

  Elvis Presley

  Reality, Rhythm, Musicianship

  Elvis Presley (2007). “Elvis: Inspirations”, p.5, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Also, I think having a musicality about me, that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

  Toni Collette

  Thinking, Different, Helping

  "Toni Collette: Keeping Track Of Multiple Personalities". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. April 1, 2010.

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• Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.

  Philip Selway

  Moving, Writing, Guitar

  "INTERVIEW: Radiohead's Phil Selway on going solo". Rhythm Interview, www.musicradar.com. July 07, 2011.

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• I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

  Esai Morales

  Spiritual, Father, Lennon

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

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• A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen

  Bob Brookmeyer

  Song, Swings, Skills

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• Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals" ... Today I am going to speak to you about "Intelligence and Musicality among Critics" ... The subject is much the same, with some modifications, of course.

  Erik Satie

  Animal, Years, Today

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• It's the hardest thing for a young player to develop. At the same time a young player also has to deliver their musicality to the audience. I'm still developing my own sound, because you can never know all the music.

  Jimmy Heath

  Player, Sound, Young

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• I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Thinking, Appreciate

  "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 talk about it a lot to my students. Musicality never came up in any of own writing education, and I can see why - we don't have the vocabulary for it. Phrasing is intuitive, and its difficult to articulate when it's on and when it's not.

  Paul Lisicky

  Writing, Vocabulary, Students

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I’ve heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.

  Ralph McTell

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the same instrument, ideally. But I think that we all have the same comedic tendencies, and that's why it works. We all sort of agree with what's funny.

  Bradley Cooper

  Drama, Thinking, Play

  "Bradley Cooper Talks THE HANGOVER PART III, Character Relationships, Concluding the Trilogy, Going Back to Vegas, Oscar Buzz & More from Our Set Visit". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. April 17, 2013.

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• I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't cut anything off, don't limit yourself. Give it a good listen: you might find something in that goofy Sun Ra noise, that dissonance. Before I learned 'official musicality' - which you should avoid at all costs - I listened to some Sun Ra and Yusef Lateef and John Coltrane and that's where 'Journey to the Center of the Mind' came from. When you intentionally and aggressively pursue musical communication with those powerfully impactful musical geniuses, you will pick up something.

  Ted Nugent

  Communication, Cutting, Journey

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• Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself if you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Dance, Being Yourself, Ballet

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

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• Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is there too, in the formal aspects of the poem. The emotions are there in the way the senses gather things into the poem.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Expression, Mind, Body

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• Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully.

  Gary Burton

  Writing, Play, Texas

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• I stand humbled on bended knee but, of course, the response to that would be 'Duh!' And to be given that incredible honor means that I represent the piss and vinegar, the energy, the defiance, the musicality of the Funk Brothers and Motown and Mitch Ryder and Bob Seger, Brownsville Station and Grand Funk Railroad and Eminem and Jack White and Kid Rock - are you kidding me?

  Ted Nugent

  Brother, Mean, Kids

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• I believe the advantage music has is the capacity to multiply itself, the capacity to keep itself in space and access itself at different times and in different processes and to make profound analyses, analyses that through musicality would be able to connect with people who don't necessarily have the energy or wish in any exact moment to connect to well-read or critical analysis.

  Bocafloja

  Believe, Critical Analysis, Space

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.

  Q-Tip

  Watches, Way, Film

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• I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most awesome privilege to be able to use one's imagination and wit, physicality and musicality, conscious brain and unconscious instinct in the service of a work that has a chance to move and excite and amuse and delight people all over the world, including long after we're dead. What a noble calling! And I felt it was just there for me as a kind of given, some sort of inherited birthright-when in reality it's the most magnificent luxury.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Moving, Emotional, Reality

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• I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

  Russell Brand

  Towers, Language, Sitcom

  "Russell Brand: This charming man'" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids fall in love with language and what you can do with it and how it sounds in your range. It sort of has a musicality but on the other hand they get the story and the ideas and the context of it. I think it's a way to get kids into it and I also think that when kids are around people who love books it rubs off on them.

  Josh Prince

  Falling In Love, Book, Kids

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• I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.

  Michael Rapaport

  Thinking, Roots, Interesting

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• But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

  Billy West

  Fall, Character, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.

  Brian Eno

  Artist, Comedian, Singers

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• I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People see that you can play an instrument and think you can immediately write songs.

  Kris Allen

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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