Musical Quotes - page 37

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college. (Wesley Snipes)

SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

Ambrose Bierce

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument as, 'He presided at the piccolo.'

Ambrose Bierce

I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'

Zooey Deschanel

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.

Chester Bennington

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

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

Rufus Wainwright

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed. (Chick Corea)

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

Nick Cave

The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

Nick Cave

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Tori Amos

Nature herself, indeed, seems to have given music to us as a benefit, to enable us to endure labors with greater facility, for musical sounds cheer even the rower; and it is not only in those works in which the efforts of many, while some pleasing voice leads them, conspire together that music is of avail, but the toil even of people at work by themselves finds itself soothed by song, however rude.

Quintilian

My musical career was an accident.

Sade Adu

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

Billy Joel

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

Jason Aldean

And it has only been in the last hundred years or so that the ties between musical sound and human movement have been minimized.

Daniel Levitin

We've learned that musical ability is actually not one ability but a set of abilities, a dozen or more. Through brain damage, you can lose one component and not necessarily lose the others. You can lose rhythm and retain pitch, for example, that kind of thing.

Daniel Levitin

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer. (Lady Gaga)

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

Robert Moog

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.

Robert Moog

There is no art more akin to mysticism than architecture. Abstract, geometrical, musical and yet dumb, passionless, it depends entirely upon symbolism, form and suggestion. Simple lies, and the harmonious combination and numerical relations between these, present something mysterious and at the same time incomplete.

Alexander Herzen

This intersecting of inherently non-symmetrical diatonic elements with inherently non-diatonic symmetrical elements seems to me the defining principle of the musical language of Le Sacre and the source of the unparalleled tension and conflicted energy of the work.

George Perle

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