Quotes with musical

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• The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

  W. H. Auden
  American poet (1907 - 1973)
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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
  Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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• The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  Ben Harper
  American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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• The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

  Billy Gibbons
  American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  Aaron Neville
  American soul and country singer (1941 - )
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• The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.

  Notes on Abstract Art in Herbert Reads Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings (London, 1948)

  Ben Nicholson
  English painter (1894 - 1982)
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• The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

  Conversations on Some of the Old Poets (1845)

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

  Andy Rooney
  American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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• We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.

  Ben Harper
  American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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• 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
  American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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• When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.

  Ben Schwartz
  American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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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
  German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• non-representational
• architectural
• professionals
• architectonic
• differently
• unnecessary

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