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"To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it."
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"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."
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"Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?"
"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
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"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."
"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."
"You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance."
"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."
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"Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best."
"Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies."
"I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music."
"A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful."
"As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses."
"We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides."
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