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Musical theatre is my first love. -- Laura Benanti
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. -- Thomas Carlyle
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten. -- Stephen Sondheim
Musical theater is one of my passions. -- Patrick Wilson
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here. -- Edward Albee
Musicals are my favorite. I'm a musical theater buff. -- Rutina Wesley
High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift. -- Zac Efron
I had died and woken up in High School Musical -- Jamie McGuire
Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through. -- Robbie Robertson
Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that. -- David Naughton
Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention. -- Joni Mitchell
Musical Chairs. Except I thought, when God's providing the music, everyone gets a chair. -- Neta Jackson
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles. -- Horace Silver
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. -- Iggy Pop
Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful. -- Jonathan Groff
If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'. -- Paul McDonald
I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver. -- Annaleigh Ashford
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift. -- Anton Seidl
Musical shows are really popular because there are lots of talented kids out there that can sing and dance. -- Justin Chambers
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde
'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us. -- Dolly Parton
I loved performing in the 'High School Musical' movies - that didn't seem like work - but the gym felt like torture! -- Ashley Tisdale
Music is my religion. -- Jimi Hendrix
Music is part of being human. -- Oliver Sacks
Music is the shorthand of emotion. -- Leo Tolstoy
Music is the medicine of the mind. -- John Logan
I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear. -- Freddie Mercury
Music fills the infinite between two souls. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Music is the universal language of mankind. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You are the music while the music lasts. -- T. S. Eliot
The only thing better than singing is more singing. -- Ella Fitzgerald
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. -- Jean Paul
Music can change the world because it can change people. -- Bono
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. -- Thomas Carlyle
They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds. -- Edgar Wilson Nye
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater. -- Idina Menzel
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. -- Henry David Thoreau
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style. -- David Byrne
It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts. -- Ella Fitzgerald
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. -- Confucius
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. -- Duke Ellington
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. -- Warren Bennis
The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional. -- Klaus Schulze
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. -- Victor Hugo
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed. -- Chick Corea
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill. -- Cam Newton
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music. -- Paul McCartney
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. -- Paul Simon
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously. -- Kevin James
The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day. -- Justin Timberlake
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. -- William Christopher Handy
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again. -- Baz Luhrmann
I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls. -- John Coltrane
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. -- William Shakespeare
Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure. -- Taylor Hawkins
How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen. -- Cory Monteith
John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He's also inspiring on a musical level. -- Estelle
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. -- Walter Benjamin
I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that. -- Renee Fleming
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase. -- Stendhal
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. -- Thomas Carlyle
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. -- Kurt Cobain
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
There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before. -- Dave Brubeck
It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think. -- Johnny Cash
Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play. -- Sam Barry
Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically. -- Enya
My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.' -- Marsha Norman
I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I've just found that it's the best thing that works for my body. -- Christine Lakin
Mozart is the musical Christ. -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Great thoughts ensure musical expression. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rob Mullins' musical abilities are unquestionable. -- Hubert Laws
My background is in musical comedy. -- Christopher Walken
I wouldn't succeed at musical theater. -- David Duchovny
My musical tastes change every week. -- Kirk Hammett
Stevie Wonder is a musical genius ! -- Eddie Murphy
Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability. -- Rudolf Carnap
My skills are musical, not lyrical. -- Brian Wilson
My musical career was an accident. -- Sade Adu
Hell is full of musical amateurs. -- George Bernard Shaw
Every musical scene has a cycle. -- Paul Epworth
I grew up doing musical theater. -- Chris Colfer
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. -- Edgard Varese
Control of vibrato helps your musical expression. -- James Galway
'Sweeney Todd' is my favorite Sondheim musical. -- Lesley Nicol
Sweeney Todd' is my favorite Sondheim musical. -- Lesley Nicol
Different musical instruments provide for different music. -- Amos Oz
[My father] was not a musical man. -- George Michael
A musical profit outweighs a financial loss. -- Duke Ellington
I've never considered musical equipment very sacred. -- Kurt Cobain
I'll do a musical. An ass-kickin' musical! -- Dwayne Johnson
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. -- William Shakespeare
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy. -- Walter Kerr
Silence is more musical than any song. -- Christina Rossetti
I had no musical training at all. -- Belinda Carlisle
I'm not actually a big musical fan. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
I would love to do a musical! -- Elle Fanning
I think there's something strangely musical about noise. -- Trent Reznor
I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane. -- Lee Konitz
My biggest musical influences are probably my parents. -- Bobby McFerrin
Digital music boils down the actual musical experience. -- Simon Le Bon
Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person. -- Charlie Day
My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died. -- Alex Trebek
I think theres something strangely musical about noise. -- Trent Reznor
Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible. -- Robert Fripp
God has provided true musical and spiritual restoration. -- Jonathan Cain
Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry. -- Nikki Sixx
I've found that musical theater is my passion. -- Samantha Barks
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. -- Claude Debussy
I feel that I speak the musical language. -- Marsha Norman
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Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries. -- Roy Ayers
Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world. -- Mandy Patinkin
The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished. -- Richard Wagner
The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station.(on Elgar) -- Thomas Beecham

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