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Musical success depends on how much you enjoy it and how much you are willing to put in. Luck must follow, too.
Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.
A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.
Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.
Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.
Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
Democratic foursomes don't work in the '70s like they did in the '60s, when there were fewer musical directions.
To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.
'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.
The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.
I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.
The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical.
When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.
It is a miracle a musical gets up because of all the different departments and how much it costs. It is a miracle.
There are so many international musical connections here, in Amsterdam. And some of them are amazingly successful.
Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.
How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
I'm not really a big musical fan. I enjoyed 'West Side Story' when it came out, but it gets a bit tired in the end.
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
The narrative shouldn't stop for the song in a musical. The music has to continue the narrative of the storytelling.
I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.
I'm always excited about music, but having spent so much time in its pursuit - well, my musical life is complicated.
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.
I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.
Traditional musical forms like 'Parai Isai' and 'Villupattu' are unique, and they need to be protected and nurtured.
My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.
I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.
I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.
Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.
I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.
I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?
I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.
I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.
I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don't look back, you can never look back.
I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different shows.
I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.
Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.