When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.
Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?
I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument.
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i. e. , pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.
The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.
Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B. ' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.
I'm not in "Bend and Snap. " But, I will say that when I first heard they were making Legally Blonde into a musical, I thought, Well, of course, there's going to be a bend and snap number, because it's just, I think, one of the most natural moments in the movie to expand into a musical number.
I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I would be quite happy if I died tomorrow.
'Modern Love' completes the EP as an intricate musical piece weaving in and out of complex rhythms. There is even a beatless ambient mix that shows Subb-an has more strings to his bow. We are always keen to push artists out of their comfort zone and really show the world what they are capable of.
When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.
The script is like music to me. I approach it like it's a musical piece and I hear how it's supposed to sound when people say the words. There's rhythms and there's intonations and things, and so, when somebody comes in and hits the notes that I hear, I go okay. Or, they come close enough, and then I'll say "Well how about you try it like this?" and if they have a good ear and they can pick it up, then I think okay, they've got it.