When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.
I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.
The freedom of being ordinary was intoxicating; it allowed her to appreciate the subtleties of life and its music.
Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.
I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.
I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors.
The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works.
It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.
Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.
But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.
I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.
I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.
Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
Parkour is not just linear. There are moments that are intense and some that are lesser, so you have to move from one to another, and that becomes the musicality of Parkour.
I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.