Quotes by Musical I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records. Billy Sherwood musical leader father Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor. Bix Beiderbecke nouns musical technique Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always. Bjork musician musical house I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side. Black Francis musical hero art Staying enthused about finding things; discovering new beauty in the world that can translate into music. That's the most precious sort of resource. You have to pull stuff from outside of the musical realm. Whatever muscle it is that it takes to listen to music and stay focused, in me, is really strong. Blake Mills musical strong world When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background. Blixa Bargeld artistic backgrounds musical The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome. Bob Dylan welcome musical world You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital. Bob Dylan musical church choices My biggest musical influences are probably my parents. Bobby McFerrin influence musical parent The bar for being shocking doesn't even exist anymore. What am I going to do to shock people? Seriously, try to get The Fisting Musical off the ground? Its really at this point, there is no bar. Bobcat Goldthwait musical trying people One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans. Boris Vian musical fans inspiration What happened during the previews of 'Taboo' [musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a great song-writer - I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn't the usual stuff like, "Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that..." It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing. Boy George drug musical song I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life. Boz Scaggs instinct musical steps I don't think it will ever be lessened. Because I always move on to something else - and the music that I listen to, that I ingest, is a lot different than what I put out. I'm always becoming obsessed with the next phase of my musical vocabulary. Bradford Cox musical moving thinking I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of a musical approach: You learn a melody, and then you sing it, I suppose, or you find a rhythm or a cadence that works for the material. And then it's sort of about hitting that note correctly and finding those beats. Brady Corbet cadence musical character What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America. Branford Marsalis musical asking america I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media. Brenda Lee musical media believe 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. Bret McKenzie musical guy looks I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature. Brett Dennen musical song ideas My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores! Brett Somers wonderful-person musical doe «23456789101112»