That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.
I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.
The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.
As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.
I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.
It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
