"The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth."
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"I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on."
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"If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought."
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"Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through."
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"Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life."
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"I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were."
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"Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days."
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"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."
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"So musical a discord, such sweet thunder."
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"I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more."
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"I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple."
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"Great thoughts ensure musical expression."
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"Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice."
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"Chaka, I know that pussy hairy. Sade, ooooh, I know that pussy tight."
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"You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it."
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"When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy."
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"We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater."
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"I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in"
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"Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977."
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"Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch."
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