Musical Quotes
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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'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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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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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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In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.
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All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.
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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
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In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
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I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.
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Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.
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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
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I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.
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[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!
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Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.
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A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
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Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.
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I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.
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If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
