Trey Parker Quotes

I think I'd do pretty good on 'Glee' singing.

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me.