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- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt great about what I wrote for 'Newsies,' but 'Newsies' was a total flop.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
A villain number is a very valuable thing to have, but if you look at most musicals, one way or another there's an antagonist number.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most things that I write are in very specific forms. A score will have a shape and profile, and then the more emotional and intimate moments will come.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well... who actually becomes a composer?'
- New
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What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime - came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg - and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not intimidated by embracing a familiar form and what's familiar about it and making it my own. It is, I think, one of my gifts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the job is knowing how to use this medium in the most effective way for the story you're telling, so for me, to pick a genre I want to do is a little harder. I would say it's more about thinking, 'What genre will work for what kind of story?' And then, when all of that comes, I embrace it and run with it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things I tend to do best are the things that are the most overtly emotional, whether it's sentimental or whether it's celebratory or whether it's conflicted.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any musical form that has been around long enough to have cultural resonance beyond just being a cutting edge kind of communication - but, especially, when it begins to reflect on a time and reflect on a culture - is effective in a musical.
- Benefiting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way.
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- Nov 07, 2020