Musical Quotes - Page 40

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

  Waylon Jennings

  Kings, Texas, Bob

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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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• You can keep your Streisands.

  Rod Stewart

  Streisand

  Song: Fool for you, Album: A Night on the Town

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• You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.

  Al Yankovic

  Block, Kids, Play

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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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• My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

  Jane Campion

  Keys, Emotion, Embarrassing

  "How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano". Interview with Anna Tims, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2012.

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• I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

  Monique Coleman

  School, Kids, Night

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• I would love to do a musical!

  Elle Fanning

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• I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.

  Jamie Foxx

  Men, People, Going Out

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

  Mike Figgis

  Littles, Film, More Time

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• The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

  Lesley Garrett

  Yorkshire, Heritage, Wide

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• Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

  Barry Hannah

  Writing, Thinking, Two

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• Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

  Gregory Harrison

  Hollywood, Festivals, Firsts

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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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• I've found that musical theater is my passion.

  Samantha Barks

  Passion, Theater, Found

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• The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

  William Shenstone

  Lines, Scripture, Periods

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• Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

  Suzi Quatro

  Lenses, Way, Problem

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• The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

  Martin Bashir

  Opportunity, Fda, Achievement

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• Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

  Terry Riley

  Gdp, Western Music, Patterns

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• I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Gmos, Variation, Pieces

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