Will Chase Quotes
'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.
Quotes to Explore
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
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Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.
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'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
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A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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You have to be a little commercial, and that's what I learnt over the years.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
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It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
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Owning your curves means being confident - actually being confident - in your own skin.
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The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.
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Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
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The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.
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There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
