Musical Quotes

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

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

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical.

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

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

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

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.