In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?
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.
The Green Fairy: I'm the Green Fairy... The hills are alive, with The Sound Of Music.
Chuck Aule: Nice music, who is that, Brahms? Teddy Daniels: [pauses] No. It's Mahler.
Kurt: I wonder what grass tastes like.
Liesl: [upon receiving her first kiss from Rolfe] Wheeeeeeeeeee!
Willy Wonka: It's a musical lock. [begins playing Mozart's 'Marriage Of Figaro'] Mrs. Teevee: Rachmaninoff.
I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.
We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.
I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.
