"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
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"If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing."
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"In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician. Playing in a group, I'm tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That's just me getting older. I'm not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that."
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"Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?"
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"The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words."
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"Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak."
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"I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive."
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"Britney Spears has shoulders like a man."
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"A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved."
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"I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it."
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"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically."
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"I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over."
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"Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge."
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"What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion."
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"Mormonism has this great cheesy aesthetic - when you watch their videos, it's almost as if they're about to flash a smile at the camera and burst into song. Mormon cheesiness is so close to musical cheesiness."
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"I was a teenager doing teenager things, and now I have the honor of being on tour with musical giants Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull. I'm doing my music and performing in my own concerts! It just goes to show that anything is possible with hard work."
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"Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way."
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"The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music."
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"I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?"
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"If I ever have children of my own, they will read Matilda. They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see Matilda: The Musical."
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