Best quotes by Christopher Guest on Music
Checkout quotes by Christopher Guest on Music
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‟ Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
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‟ In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk music, it's the seriousness with which these people approach their 'art.'
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‟ I've been fortunate. I get to write films. I get to write music in films. I get to play arenas wearing a wig.
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‟ I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do you want to play?' I said the drums, and my mother said, 'No, you don't. You don't want to play the drums.' So I said, 'Maybe the trumpet would be cool.' And my mother said, 'I don't think so.' And then the clarinet was handed to me.
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‟ It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for music and art in New York City, and then found the guitar and the mandolin after it.
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‟ My passion is more specific, in the sense that I've always liked doing comedy. I've always liked doing music. I like acting. And apparently, you need those things in movies.
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‟ I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.
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‟ Music means a great deal to me.
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