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"Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration."
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"It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert."
"Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate."
"For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album."
"You cannot build a strong team unless you teach your people discipline."
"One note does not make a symphony, one artist does not make an orchestra."
"Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration."
"None of us can accomplish our dreams without the help of others. Is it more important for you to feel superior and self-sufficient than to accomplish your dreams within a community of supporters?"
"Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding."
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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."
"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
"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."
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