Musical Quotes - Page 10

• Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing

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• As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

  George M. Cohan

  Thinking, Play, Ideas

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• I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.

  Erol Alkan

  Creative, Obsession, Good Things

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I found it easy to produce. I'm not the musical guy. I can't read and play music like that, but put some drums and a sample in front of me and I can whip it up nice, and I'll work out some keys and find some interesting instruments to put under it.

  Dizzee Rascal

  Nice, Keys, Play

  Source: thequietus.com

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• People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.

  Page Hamilton

  Song, People, Albums

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the things that the "South Park" creators have created, like "The Book Of Mormon," the Broadway musical. If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in "The Book Of Mormon," right? It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.

  Adam Gopnik

  Book, Charlie Hebdo, Cartoon

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you. I believe it is important to remain humble and thankful for the blessings in our lives, for the tremendous opportunities that are a result of our musical success.

  Mike Love

  Jobs, Believe, Humble

  "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

  Bent Saether

  Understanding, Sooner Or Later, Songwriters

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

  David Bowie

  Men, Elephants, Roles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.

  Jasper Fforde

  Order, Dancing, Good Man

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most of the EDM tracks right now are not very musical, they have one note that keeps playing. You really don't need to be a musician to do records like this, so I think me playing guitar for so many years and listening to rock 'n' roll and real music helps me when I work with vocalists like Lana Del Ray and Miley Cyrus.

  Cedric Gervais

  Real, Thinking, Rocks

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• It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and cutting something immediately if it doesn't feel true. I come from a family of musicians and - while I have no musical abilities of my own - I think I inherited a good ear.

  Mary J. Miller

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

  Glenn Frey

  Instinct, Categories, Certain

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 20, 2016.

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• Every part of every song can have a totally different musical sound, because otherwise if I wanted to go from a verse of one song to the chorus of another, I'd have to go: "Uh, okay, press that pedal and then... press that pedal, and then press that pedal off."

  Annie E. Clark

  Song, Sound, Different

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• David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night (not a whole tour) but he was incredibly gracious and generous toward me and I've certainly never forgotten it.

  Brooke Fraser

  Night, Support, Gentleman

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Interesting, Creative, Crafts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what "mood" people will be in next. Ask yourself what would be the most natural transition or reaction to the current genre. Then create it!

  Wendy Starland

  Bored, People, Landscape

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• Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.

  Gail Zappa

  Live Concerts, Ideas, Would Be

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every word that I say, every song that I sing, and literally every move that I make [ in Chicaho musical] has much purpose.

  Eddie George

  Song, Moving, Purpose

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• So Nemerov showed us this picture, which is of Apollo flaying Marcius. You don't think of Apollo as being the sort of person who would skin someone alive. But the story behind it was that there was this guy who was a really great musician, and all the women loved him, and people started saying he was the best musician in the world, so Apollo got jealous and he challenged this guy to a musical dual. They would each play a song and the muses would judge who was the better musician.

  Larkin Grimm

  Song, Jealous, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Music is so incredible, the most healing force in the world along with love of course which all things are created and essentially are. I want to make films that can equal the energy experience of music, the experience of a record that sends your soul to heaven; a film can do this. I've seen films get in this area. Hopefully I've made some; I don't know but I want to make them like this, with the power of musical energy,that's one of my soul-goals for I am in awe of this love called music which I participate in everyday.

  Giuseppe Andrews

  Healing, Goal, Heaven

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.

  Garth Greenwell

  Study, Language, Late

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Great Music, Periods, Discovering Things

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Loving the process. I learn it over and again and in different ways. I'm speaking particularly to the musical process, but I definitely think that this lesson transcends. Loving the life process. Loving the process of becoming stronger by experiencing something that makes me feel unsteady. The process of speaking and living my truth and making my own path.

  Madi Diaz

  Thinking, Stronger, Experiencing Something

  "Madi Diaz: Loving the Process". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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