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  • I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

    Believe   Years   Musical  
  • Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.

    Source: logger.believermag.com
  • Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

    Law   Musical   Training  
  • Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.

    Art   Stars   Hands  
    "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 16,
  • And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

    Father   Character   Play  
    Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.
  • When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.

    New York   Doors   Years  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I've always wanted to be a communicator of ideas through music. Today, I wanna be the most effective musical communicator of social change I could be, so I try to find different ways to do it and I'm always challenging myself to find new things, learn new instruments. But I always try to find in my heart, what it is I really want to say with words.

    "Reasoning with Michael Franti". Interview with Marlon Regis, jahworks.org.
  • I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

    "Queens rapper Action Bronson talks food, music and Flushing characters". Interview with Irving Dejohn, www.nydailynews.com. June 26, 2013.
  • The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

    Musical   Noses   Pieces  
    "An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 130, 1981.
  • The high note is not the only thing.

    Music   Crafts   Notes  
  • I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

  • First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

    Air   Circles   Musical  
    Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions
  • I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

    Music   Play   People  
  • Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

    Brother   Dad   Musical  
  • ...what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for the first time that forces me to re-examine my frames of reference, and re-consider musical parameters in general, and that's wonderful . And what's even more wonderful in a way, is when you hear something that you know, and already think you have an opinion about, and then suddenly discover that it isn't what you thought it was, but something quite different, which makes it just as surprising as if you'd never heard it before. That's REALLY great!

  • Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.

    Musical   Looks   Bother  
  • I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

    Reading   Dark   Musical  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.

    Long   Musical   Age  
    Source: www.broadwayworld.com
  • I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

  • Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)

    Cocky   Musical   Style  
  • It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

  • I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'

    Dream   Thinking   People  
  • If you go to any fight, whether MMA or boxing, there's a whole musical soundscape to these events. There's pre-event pump up/psych-up music, there's fighter introductions, there's between rounds, so my musical needs are really diverse.

    Fighting   Psych   Mma  
    Source: collider.com
  • The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation.

    Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library
  • My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

    Growing Up   Dad   Player  
    "Knowing Lindi Ortega By Her 'Little Red Boots'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 4, 2011.
  • The dream was to not only make a good-looking film that engaged, but also had the DNA of the show so the fans would love it and also as important had the opportunity to cross over out of the fans because of the price-point. You make a film that's 60 million dollars you can't just appeal to musical theater fans.

    Dream   Opportunity   Dna  
    Source: collider.com
  • I love to act, so the only way I could act was through community theatre and they would just do musicals. My musical upbringing was show-tunes and it sucks and I have been trying to get away from it ever since.

  • The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music...

    Voice   Musical   May  
    "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: A Living Legend" by Ahmed Aqeel Ruby, translated by Sajjad Haider Malik, Lahore: Words of Wisdom, 1992.
  • An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and the viewer, so it's close to what a musical composer does, or a poet or a dancer. It is coming out of one's inner being.

    Artist   Dancer   Musical  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • You are the music while the music lasts.

    Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)
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