Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount….
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods ar….
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young..
I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or….
Vocals are not central to what I do, and I've never liked singing live. I've always been more inspired by rhythm, texture, harmony than vocal melodie….
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and tr….
I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody..
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing..
I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies..
I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'.
Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this ….
If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's the clearest I've ever been about this: "I….
There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next op….
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country..
Digital music boils down the actual musical experience..
I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence..
There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not - like a Dead show….
Mormonism has this great cheesy aesthetic - when you watch their videos, it's almost as if they're about to flash a smile at the camera and burst int….
I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families..
Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued..
The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm..