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Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world. -- Shawn Amos
At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off. -- Joshua Bell
I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction. -- Ron Moody
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels. -- Alasdair Gray
...hell was a great fiery-hot music hall, he thought, where untuned instruments scraped and shrieked in diabolical cacophany... -- Annie Proulx
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber. -- Harold MacMillan
I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated. -- Rupert Graves
I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated. -- Rupert Graves
I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus. -- Donald Sinden
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence. -- Ronnie Barker
I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it. -- Lady Gregory
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. -- W. H. Auden
My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13. -- Questlove
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. -- Zooey Deschanel
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. -- Isaac Stern
When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music. -- Michael Franti
In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall? -- Zubin Mehta
In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music. -- Conrad Hall
What I do isn't black music; it's just my music. -- Daryl Hall
Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty. -- Jerry Hall
I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music. -- Daryl Hall
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. -- Conrad Hall
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. -- Conrad Hall
The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be. -- Daryl Hall
I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists. -- Rebecca Hall
I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years. -- Daryl Hall
The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city. -- Daryl Hall
To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth. -- Daryl Hall
I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that. -- Daryl Hall
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom. -- W. Somerset Maugham
History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard. -- Archibald MacLeish
I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music]. -- Theophilus London
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music. -- Buck Owens
I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside. -- Paul McCartney
My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall. -- Arthur Symons
I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form. -- John Lydon
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