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• And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.

  James Wolcott

  Team, Book, Moon

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• 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.

  James Wolcott

  Stars, Kings, Swings

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• I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Long, Hills

  'The Solitary Reaper' from 'Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803'

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• I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Men, Pay, Theme

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• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

  Frank Zappa

  Change, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

  Felix Dennis

  Fun, Play, Two

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

  Virginia Woolf

  Air, Circles, Warning

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

  John Cage

  Music, Cutting, Ego

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• My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.

  Eric Clapton

  Two, Mind, Together

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• In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

  Phil Collins

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Song: Son Of Man

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• The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.

  Bob Dylan

  World, Welcome, Selling

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

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• When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Air, Earth

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.197, Oxford University Press, USA

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• He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very touched, Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Men, Blue

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, 2005.

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• When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspaper in question is a week old; that I am the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that headphones were invented to preserve spouses from each other's musical excesses.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Night, Hair, Two

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

  John Cage

  School, Passing By, People

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.55, Wesleyan University Press

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• I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mother, Running, Children

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen)”, Harcourt on Demand

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• The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw.

  Conan O'Brien

  School, Weekend, Two

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• There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Song, Rocks

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• An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

  Edith Wharton

  Music, Artist, Italian

  The Age of Innocence ch. 1 (1920)

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• The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.

  Julio Cortazar

  Writing, Loss, Perfection

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• To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores

  Machado de Assis

  Stars, Sky, Waiting

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• The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Believe, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.94, HarperCollins UK

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• In the middle of the night I am awakened by a sound. I sit up abruptly in bed. I hear it again. It's music. Wait, it sounds like the ice cream man, in our house. Is this some kind of twisted nightmare? The flipping ice cream man, breaking in to chop us all up in our beds to the tune of 'Zippity Do Dah'?... My heart slows. I remember. There is no psycho ice cream man here. It is just our new musical soap dispenser.

  Deb Caletti

  Heart, Night, Men

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• I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

  David Klass

  Play, Sound, Giants

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

  Chuck Klosterman

  Nails, Band, Nine

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