#musical

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through. ↗

— James Wolcott

#broadway #deplore #imaginative #influx #machine

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs! ↗

— Tom Wopat

#doing #hits #musicals #old #realize

Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#background #both #carry #classical #classical music

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#generation #musically #totally #us #whole

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creates #interests #kind #language #me

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#devices #echo #electronic #incorporate #just

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#berlin #broadway #broadway musicals #composers #drawn

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover. ↗

— Ben Harper

#blind #deepest #discover #heritage #musical

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

#festival #first #got #hollywood #i

When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about me, but I always felt like at least musically, let me just do what I do and be the best at it. Which is what I'm doing right now. ↗

— Chad Hugo

#always #asian #best #doing #felt