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"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."
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"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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"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."
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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
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"Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again."
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"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
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"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
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"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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"Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere."
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"The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written."
Soul
"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."
Play
"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
"It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do."
Work
"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
"A play is a passion."
Passion
"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
"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
"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
"The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool."
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