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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."
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"Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni."
"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."
"I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play."
"After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it."
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"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."
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
"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."
"You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people."
"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."
"Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall."
"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."
"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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