Musical Quotes
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No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.
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There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.
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Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school.
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In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.
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...I think there's only one thing that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline and cooperation.
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I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.
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I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.
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I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.
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Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.
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If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
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I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.
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I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?
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I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
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I would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.
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Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.
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Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.
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I'm not the kind of guy who walks around with a notebook writing lyrics. For me, melody and song structure come first and foremost. Unless the melody gets stuck in my head, I'll move on. Once I have the musical idea pretty firm, I just try to write words that are incredibly honest and relate to my life on that given night. I'll sit with the music on my headphones and pen and paper all night long until it's done.
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There's an interesting thing I've seen with Australian bands: when you put them side-by-side with bands from other parts of the world, they're just more musical. They're just better.
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I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.
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I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.
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The narrative shouldn't stop for the song in a musical. The music has to continue the narrative of the storytelling.
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I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.
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'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.
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Every musical scene has a cycle.
