- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
- Hammerstein
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something inimical about the camera and song.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
- Nov 07, 2020
A close-up on screen can say all a song can.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020