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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
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By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
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The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
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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.
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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
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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.
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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
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I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.
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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
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