"Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father."

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"Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father."

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"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."

Art

"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."

Work

"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."

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"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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"My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other."

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"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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"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."

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"In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies."

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"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."

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"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."

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