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"I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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Personal Development
"If you want to be loved, be lovable."
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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
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"They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect."
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"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
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"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
Growing up
"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
Country
"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."
Service
"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."
Acting
"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure."
Music
"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
Time
"I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged."
Want
"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."
Work
"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it."
Work
"I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it."
Music
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