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"If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing."
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"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."
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"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."
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"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose."
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"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."
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"I usually play disenfranchised youth."
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"For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition."
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"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."
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"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."
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"The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool."
Fool
"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."
Boredom
"A play is a passion."
Passion
"The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control."
War
"You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us."
Failure
"All experience helps when you write."
Experience
"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."
Opera
"It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do."
Work
"I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing."
Enthusiasm
"A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent."
Man
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