"I grew up hardcore. I learned to be more responsible - and fiscally responsible - you know, I just wanna be a kid again! Do a musical, have tons of time or something."
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"Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years."
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"More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled."
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"Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself."
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"Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce."
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"Mike Nicholls saw me in the musical of The Full Monty and brought me in to audition for Angels in America for HBO. And that opened a lot of doors because you could go to LA and say: "Well, I'm starring opposite Al Pacino and Meryl Streep...""
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"Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family."
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"I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser."
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"I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction."
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"In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped."
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"Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome."
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"Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross."
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"Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music."
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"Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'"
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"Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed."
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"I'm not actually a big musical fan."
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"When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s."
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"Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time."
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"A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either"
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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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