Quotes About Musical

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

There's something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn't work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without meaning to offend anyone, a musical like 'Les Miserables' would be the last thing I'd ever be interested in.

I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.

The thing that's carried over from my visual-art education into what I do musically is my openness.

You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.

If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody goes to the opera for the recitative. They go for the aria.

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.

Musical comedy is the Irish stew of drama. Anything may be put into it, with the certainty that it will improve the general effect.

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

Alexander Hamilton," said Hamilton. "My name is Alexander Hamilton." "I'm Peyton McCallister," said Peyton. "And nobody's done a musical about me, but just you wait. Just you wait.

And I discovered Norton's anthology of poetry in the patients' library – it changed my life. I read the poems over and over again before I began to grasp their meanings. It wasn't just that the words were musical notes my eyes could sing. It was the discovery that women and men, long dead, had left me messages about their feelings, emotions I could compare to my own. I had finally found others who were as lonely as I was. In an odd way, that knowledge comforted me.

There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.

I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.

I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

Jimmy Fallon's strengths are that he's fun, and he's good at impressions, and he's musically inclined. And my strength is that I'm a joke writer, but I also have no filter, and I think that that's not a talent per se, but it's just a thing about myself that I have found that people like about what I do.

Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.

Forget about musical credibility. I think, unless you're Radiohead or whatever, it's pointless striving for that. What I would like is some respect.