#musical

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#achieve #am #first #i #i am

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations. ↗

— Robert Mayer

#aspirations #bricklayer #i #look #musical

But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#cult thing #dancing #difficult #difficult thing #done

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.' ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#come #doing #done #down #hollywood

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#features #high #high school #i #i do

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#first #hole #into #musically #our

I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#culture #daily #dancing #good #half

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#congregation #emotions #experience #fervor #heard

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#american #classic #desire #felt #form

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#anybody #anywhere #bands #classical #david