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I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.
'High School Musical' is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.
Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.
Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor
Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.
I've done music as a hobby, either in musical theater or just jamming with friends, pretty much for as long as I can remember.
You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn't use microphones.
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
I'm looking for the surprises, you know, and the unexpected moments of technology, the unexpected moments of musical creation.
If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.
Coming from Puerto Rico and having that be my musical universe for the majority of my life no doubt strongly impacts my music.
For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.
You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets.
I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.
I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.
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.
I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.
My musical tastes - I'm always searching for new things. I know a lot of people say they listen to everything, but I kind of do.
I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.
Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.
I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that.
I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.
People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
Anyone I have musical chemistry with, I recruit, and we do shows and create drum kits together and make tunes for the SoundCloud.
I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the musical behind it.
A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.
I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.
My musical taste is like a 16-year-old girl's when it comes to working out - Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus. I love it all!
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people.
If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.
Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?
Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day.
I auditioned for a musical, and I can't sing. It was a kid's film musical, not a stage show, so I thought I could get away with it.
I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.
Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.