Musical Quotes - Page 38

• The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

  Don McLean

  Fall, Eight, Shelter

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• Take me home tonight, listen honey, just like Ronnie sang, be my little baby.

  Eddie Money

  Baby, Home, Tonight

  Song: Take Me Home Tonight Be My Baby

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• Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

  John Cale

  Successful, Facts, Helping

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• The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Silence, Remember

  Henry David Thoreau, Horace Elisha Scudder, Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1898). “The writings of Henry David Thoreau”

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• The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.

  Al Yankovic

  Blue, Fans, Crowds

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• She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Wine, Franklin, Good Wine

  Song: XXX's and OOO's

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• Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

  Elton John

  Turner, Highways

  Song: Midnight Creeper Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player

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• Tiffany is wrestling in Jell-O.

  Mojo Nixon

  Wrestling

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• They were wearing smelly blankets, they looked like Donovan fans.

  Frank Zappa

  Fans, Blanket, Smelly

  Song: WE ARE TURNING AGAIN

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• Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace.

  Tupac Shakur

  Shining, Watches, Watch Me

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• When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

  Waylon Jennings

  Kings, Texas, Bob

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• We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.

  Billy Joel

  Doors, Tape, Hash

  Song: Goodnight Saigon, Album: The Nylon Curtain, 1982

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• You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

  Bob Dylan

  Choices, Church, Brooklyn

  Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

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• Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

  Rick Springfield

  Men, Thinking, Waiting

  Song: Bruce, 2007

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• Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.

  Eminem

  Clothes, Backwards, Hard

  Song: hi my name is

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• I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

  Andrew Eldritch

  Thinking, Class, Able

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• With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

  Stevie Wonder

  Voice, Band, Way

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• Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

  Alex Flinn

  Stars, Writing, Ambition

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• I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

  America Ferrera

  Chicago, Saws, Firsts

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• I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

  Danny Elfman

  Might, Stuff, Film

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• I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.

  Molly Ringwald

  Appreciation, Dad, Passion

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• I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Father, Musical Education, Incredibles

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• I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

  Drew Lachey

  School, Wife, Three

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• We often say that psi is like musical ability: it is widely distributed in the populate, and everyone has some ability and can participate to some extent - in the same way that the most nonmusical person can learn to play a little Mozart on the piano. On the other hand, there is no substitute for innate talent, and there is no substitute for practice.

  Russell Targ

  Hands, Practice, Play

  Russell Targ (2010). “Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness”, p.75, New World Library

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• It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.

  Howard Snell

  Player, Sound, Ordinary

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