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"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."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

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"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."

"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."

"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."

"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music."

"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."

"The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?"
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