Show Tunes Quotes

• One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

  Sarah Vowell

  Summer, Night, Tunes

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thank You, Tunes, Orchestra

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• I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

  Dinah Shore

  Country, Couple, Heart

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• I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

  Tim Robbins

  Doe, Cocoons, Kind

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• I love the show tunes; I love all of them.

  Kelly Stables

  Tunes, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Song, Years, Musical

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

  Tommy Tune

  Gambling, Ideas, Central Park

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

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• Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Car, Parent, Tunes

  "From Child Actor To Artist: Radcliffe Reflects On Post-Potter Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wshu.org. October 11, 2013.

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• I love to act, so the only way I could act was through community theatre and they would just do musicals. My musical upbringing was show-tunes and it sucks and I have been trying to get away from it ever since.

  Thomston

  Community Theatre, Musical, Trying

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• My dad was a jazz fan and he used to have lots of old 78s, so I grew up with big jazz bands and the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie - although I really liked show tunes from those big musicals as well. I've always kept my ears open, as it were, when it comes to music. It doesn't matter to me what type of music it is. If I like it, I'll listen to it.

  Ric Sanders

  Dad, Ears, Matter

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• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  Laura Benanti

  Song, Mirrors, Sky

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My favorite thing to hear from people is, 'I left the theater and couldn't stop thinking about it.' You want your work to have an impact after they leave the theater. It's the equivalent of leaving a musical humming a show tune.

  Marin Ireland

  Thinking, Impact, People

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• I grew up in a very musical household. My brother had KISS and Van Halen records, but my parents loved country and show tunes, so I had all of those records when a kid. I pretty much knew exactly what I was going to do at a young age. I loved album covers, I loved listening to a record and staring at the art while listening to it. When I got older and discovered paining, drawing and PhotoShop, I was able to do both simultaneously; I enjoy making both.

  Piggy D.

  Country, Art, Brother

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• I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences. I love American music of absolutely all stripes, including show tunes, advertising jingles, theme tunes from quiz shows, all kinds of American music.

  Nick Lowe

  Writing, Character, Stripes

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

  Tom Wopat

  Rocks, Tunes, Different

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• I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

  Bryan Clay

  Singing, Tunes, Driving

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• I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.

  Don Imus

  Thinking, Tunes, Dresses

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• Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.

  Darby Stanchfield

  Cutting, Tunes, Noise

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• I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

  Terri Windling

  Music, Native American, Tunes

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• If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

  Bobby Short

  Play, People, Trying

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• I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Car, Listening, Tunes

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• For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

  John Podhoretz

  Confusion, Tunes, Records

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• I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

  Anna Kendrick

  Artist, Thinking, Fire

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