Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes
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I'm artistically critical of my own work.
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I'm a very philanthropically oriented individual. There are a lot of causes that I support, and I'm a big fan of advocacy.
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For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.
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As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.
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My love for The Four Tops cannot be expressed greatly enough.
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Nothing surprises me about Berry Gordy.
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It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.
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Style and image - it's what Motown is about. They had a charm school led by Maxine Powell. There was literally an artists' development department.
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I think 'Rent' will run forever.
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I really only knew the name Berry Gordy growing up, but I didn't know what he looked like or anything about him.
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People talking about making America great again? America's never been great. The greatness of America is in its pursuit of greatness.
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I work in musical theater because people keep writing quality stories in the genre, and I'm really all about investing in a piece that says something about our current time, that is, a reflection on who we are today.
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We need to encourage people to speak up, to speak out, because the more people who participate in our democracy, the more our democracy grows.
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I feel like the more we speak for and support others, the less we'll have to worry about speaking for and supporting ourselves.
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I think that it's important to make criticisms of the government as a whole and criticisms of the policies, but to do so in a way that you can invite the individuals who maybe were on the opposition before, or who voted for somebody whom you are in disagreement with... that you open the door for a conversation with those people.
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I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.
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The producers, the creators, and the cast, we recognize that 'Hamilton' is an inherently American story told by the definition of an American community; we are men and women of different colors, creeds, and orientations.
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Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement with the civil rights movement.
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I have a wide range of influences - I mean, first of all, I am a big, big fan of old soul music. Then, there's people like Donny Hathaway, Elton John... a diverse array of music.
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The biggest thing Motown did was change our social fabric: the way we interacted with each other as human beings.
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Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.
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When you mess up, what are you going to do? Just keep going. And speak loudly.
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I think that there is such power with the live performance of it - so much of what 'Motown' is about is the live performance aspect, really. The power of our production is really the music and the performances.
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I was a fan of 'Power' before I was working on the show, so I'm excited by every script that comes into my hands.