I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.
Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.
I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.
In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.
I think I was affected quite a bit by musical and creative influences that go all the way back to my childhood.
The world is full of poetry. ~ The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
I enjoy the healing music and touch of love, touching my heart and soul when I give it away.
Smiles are the dance of our soul, with the music of love, to express the beauty of mind, for the happiness of spirit, and for the joy of the world.
I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well.
I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.
Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.
I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!
Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings.
[from trailer] Vyvyan Ayrs: That's it! The music from my dream. Robert Frobisher: I call it the "Cloud Atlas Sextet".
Dracula: [about the wolves that are howling] Listen to them: the children of the night. What sweet music they make.
Marv: [the McCallister house is filled with supposed partygoers; music is blasting] Did they come back? Harry: From *Paris*?
