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"I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera."
"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
"If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it."
"Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations."
"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
"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."
"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."
"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
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"There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible."
"The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations."
"There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer."
"I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing."
"When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!"
"I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid."
"As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible."
"It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist."
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