“ In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play. ”
- Jerome Lawrence- Copy
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“ Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift. ”
- Gustav Mahler- Copy
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“ If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. ”
- John Cage- Copy
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“ Many people never treated this as an opera, but as a musical, a kind of musical ghetto. ”
- Simon Estes- Copy
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“ I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine. ”
- Guy Pearce- Copy
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“ Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ I never was an opera fan — about twenty-five musically supreme masterpieces in this curious medium apart. ”
- Hans Keller- Copy
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“ I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase. ”
- Henri B. Stendhal- Copy
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“ I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. ”
- Billy Joel- Copy
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“ Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind. ”
- Hal A. Lingerman- Copy
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“ Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. ”
- Libby Gelman Waxner- Copy
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“ Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
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“ Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. ”
- Paul Klee- Copy
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“ Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ I am aware that my musical style is not necessarily to the taste of all of you. I've got a heightened 'boredom factor' if music gets too redundant. ”
- Wendy Carlos- Copy
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“ I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way maybe a jazz musician would approach an improvisation on a theme. ”
- Andy Garcia- Copy
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“ My father was a vaudevillian, and my mother was principal boy in pantomime among other things such as light musical comedy. ”
- Gale Gordon- Copy
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“ Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them. ”
- Charles Gounod- Copy
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“ As the 1960s began, jazz music was still at an apex, with hard bop groups led by the likes of Miles Davis and John Coltrane remaining a force on the musical landscape. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat. ”
- Anthony Stewart Head- Copy
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