"First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air."
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"The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers are there to eliminate obstacles to that interpretation."
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"Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought."
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"I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical."
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"Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke."
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"The record is definitely a musical journey. It's kind of all over the place, which I like."
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"Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace."
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"Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name."
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"When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets."
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"I'm glad I can do both full-band electric and solo acoustic performances. It's nice to have contrast, so if you get fed up with one, you can just switch to the other one. It's great to go to a town and play an acoustic show, and then you can come back a year later and play electric, and the show's really fairly different. The repertoire will be 50 percent different. The musical energy is completely different."
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"I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength."
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"People are funny in like young adulthood, just like how people's musical tastes are cool, but it changes very rapidly. In five or ten years, I'll probably still be confident about what's funny but it probably won't be funny anymore."
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"I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls."
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"I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want to do a musical one day. I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre."
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"What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme--to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life."
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"Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle."
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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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"If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises"."
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"I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971."
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"I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres."
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