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My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

My musical style was developed basically by listening to music. The music I like helped to mold my style. I used to listen to the majority of down south music when I was a shorty coming up.

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. I write in words. I don write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors. I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.

My musical style has changed dramatically from my first album until now. That's the real developmental shift. But my clothing has pretty much stayed the same. The important thing is to be real.

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

My musical tastes change every week.

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.

My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York.

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.

No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live. As long as it's live, it's the best because there's sort of an immediacy to connection between an audience and a performer, whereas where you do film or television, you're at the whim of so many different forces.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

No matter how many scores I've written, the next project will hopefully be completely different. As hard as it is, I'm always trying to stay fresh, not repeat myself, and come up with original musical ideas and ways of scoring.

No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.

Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just audio material - it's also the artwork, the packaging it comes in.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books into forty-five different languages. Almost none of them I can read. I can read only the English editions. But, I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque. So, different musical instruments provide for different music.

One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

People are funny in like young adulthood, just like how people's musical tastes are cool, but it changes very rapidly. In five or ten years, I'll probably still be confident about what's funny but it probably won't be funny anymore.

Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation and illiteracy.

People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.

People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what "mood" people will be in next. Ask yourself what would be the most natural transition or reaction to the current genre. Then create it!

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.