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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Poor
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Nov 07, 2020

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Chance
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Nov 07, 2020

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

Gotta
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Nov 07, 2020

Gotta watch out for directors.

Professional
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Nov 07, 2020

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

Nov 07, 2020

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

Changes
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Nov 07, 2020

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

Nov 07, 2020

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

Really
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Nov 07, 2020

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

Hammerstein
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Nov 07, 2020

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

Nov 07, 2020

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Other
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Nov 07, 2020

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

Nov 07, 2020

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

Personal
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Nov 07, 2020

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

Nov 07, 2020

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

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