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People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.
I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.
There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater
You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.
I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.
As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.
I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.
The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!
The majority of people mistakenly feel like they don't need a live musical experience.
A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.
I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.
What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.
The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.
I think my first audition was for a local musical. It was quick. I didn't get the role.
There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.
My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.
I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.
I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.
I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.
You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool
Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.
First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well.
The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you're creating a musical event.
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.