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I've tried to pitch 'Borgen - the Musical,' but they just won't listen to me!
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
Me
Musical
Tried
Pitch
Listen
Just
My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.
Blythe Danner
Family
Parents
Musical
Brother
Both
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Very
Sang
At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put all the music away and become a real comedian.' But then I realized there are amazing musical comedians out there, that musical comedy is probably something I'll always want to pursue.
Bo Burnham
Music
Day
Comedy
Amazing
Thought
First
Become
Young
Musical
Musical Comedy
One Day
Out
Able
Something
Point
Pursue
Put
Comedian
Comedians
Well
Always
Real
Very
Want
Realized
Then
Away
Starting
I grew up listening to Steve Martin and Robin Williams, so I didn't ever intend to be a musical comedian. I sort of stumbled into it.
Bo Burnham
Listening
Musical
Williams
Martin
Stumbled
Comedian
Steve
Steve Martin
Robin
Sort
Robin Williams
Up
Intend
Grew
Ever
I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.
Bonnie McKee
Me
Parents
Musical
Recognized
Super
Piano
Piano Lessons
Put
Always
Choirs
Lessons
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.
Bonnie Raitt
Great
Culture
Better
Style
Jazz
Older
Elvis
Musical
Bit
Compromised
He
Part
Towards
Like
Rock
His
End
Get
Artists
Blues
Which
Mean
Might
Really
Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Bonnie Raitt
Time
Great
Family
Me
Appreciation
Natural
Song
Musical
Some
All-Time
Writers
Songs
Songwriter
Great Song
Sing
Greatest
Got
Came
Hammerstein
Greatest Writers
Up
Rodgers
Being
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Early
I was heavily involved in musical theater.
Brad Goreski
Musical
Musical Theater
Involved
Theater
The first musical I ever saw was 'Ragtime.'
Brandon Victor Dixon
First
Saw
Musical
Ever
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
Branford Marsalis
Language
Jazz
Musical
Embodies
Spirit
Almost
Like
French
Dialect
America
Asking
Actually
I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.
Brenda Lee
First
Believe
Guess
Musical
Television
Kind
New
Singers
Became
Stylist
New Kind
Via
Exposure
Media
My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!
Brett Somers
God
Good
Director
Wonderful
Mark
Everything
Earth
Musical
He
Most
Does
Arrangements
Cherry
Green
Person
Really
Certain
Who
Including
Chores
Lived
Ever
In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.
Brian Austin Green
Music
Business
Gone
White
Every
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Interview
Musical
Way
Critical
Hop
About
Something
Beyond
Got
Hip
Hip-Hop
Still
Being
Explain
Aspect
I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.
Brian De Palma
Picture
Looking
Musical
Kind
Entity
New
Sort
Venue
Always
Motion
Motion Picture
Move
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
Brian Eno
Free
Jazz
Musical
Constrained
Because
Equivalent
Just
Want
Which
Your
Actually
Muscles
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.
Brian Eno
Knowledge
You
Better
Sometimes
Musical
About
Having
Results
Generate
Knew
Surprising
Move
Places
Interesting
Little
Interesting Things
Things
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
Brian Eno
Music
Experience
Thought
Increasingly
Our
Musical
Background
Musical Experience
Ourselves
Find
Composers
Write
Likely
Modern
Represent
Spaces
Which
Places
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
Brian Eno
Work
Music
Musical
Define
Well
Edges
Territory
Context
Sounds
Any
Much
Certain
Spatial
Function
Found
Nearly
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
Brian Ferneyhough
Other
Musical
Ruling
Musics
Composers
About
Both
Merely
Powers
Came
Opposition
Western
Accumulate
Depended
Canon
Subversion
Whom
Livelihood
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
Brian McKnight
Good
You
Hurt
People
Ugly
First
Musical
Say
Kid
Released
Bad
Would
Record
Had
Songs
Knew
Like
Hear
Reviews
Sell
Listen
Children
Want
Anytime
Your
Who
We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era.
Brian Setzer
Crazy
Took
Musical
Some
Part
Look
Also
Styles
Era
Mix
Rockabilly
Were
Lot
Afraid
Different
Influences
Standard
People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply strictly with musical theater phrasing. Musical theater tends to be very one and three, and jazz is definitely two and four.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
People
Three
Jazz
Strictly
Musical
Way
Musical Theater
Definitely
Comply
Phrase
Tends
Comment
Very
Theater
Realized
Four
Two
The first role that I played as a musical - I was 14 years old, and I played Birdie in 'Bye Bye Birdie.' That was an awakening of, 'Wow, I'm good at that. People are responding.' And I hardly knew what I was doing back then, but there was something that people were seeing.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Good
People
Old
First
Birdie
Back
Musical
Responding
Wow
Seeing
Something
Knew
Doing
Were
Years
Role
Then
Awakening
Hardly
Played
Bye
I was in a musical for a while, and I sing around the house all the time, but I don't ever think of myself as a singer.
Brian Tyree Henry
Time
Myself
Think
Musical
House
Sing
Singer
Around
While
Ever
I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound.
Brian Wilson
Myself
You
Genius
Singing
Think
Consider
Musical
Background
Vocal
Vocals
Voice
Like
Singer
Sound
I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers.
Brianna Brown
Musical
Secretly
Broadway
Musical Theater
Miss
Performers
Theater
Awe
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