Musical Quotes

You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right note. But not alter the score of the music, just emphasize the note correctly.

They’re not concerned with it. They don’t take their musical legacy seriously.

Whether it’s animated, whether it’s live-action, whether it’s Broadway, whether it’s television, a musical is a musical is a musical.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there’s 7 or 8 people in the world watching the show that will sit up and go, “Oh my God the music being played is the right kind of music!”

Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.

If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go.

Hopefully they’ll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when they discover life isn’t always like High School Musical.