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I did a musical episode of 'Scrubs.'
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Episode
Scrub
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You can never assume that something is going to do well.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Assume
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I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Feels
Shows
Writing
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I don't know any Mormon that doesn't have warm memories of their family.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Memories
Warm
Mormon
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Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Musical
Want
Disney
Tale
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Our kids come first, and we really put them at the top of our priority list.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
List
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On Broadway, there is no censoring, just self-censorship and doing what makes sense.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Broadway
Self Censorship
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I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheims Assassins at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Assassins
Brilliant
Thinking
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I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheim's 'Assassins' at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Assassins
Brilliant
Productions
Sondheim
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When a good idea sparks, it's usually because of some subversive angle that means the song we're writing will be fresh.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Angle
Sparks
Subversive
Good Idea
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I always have to re-learn the important lesson that the work is always stronger when I listen and take input from others.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Input
Important Lesson
Lesson
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I try to turn off the TV and play with my kids as much as I can, and I always hope they're having as good a time as Mormon kids.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Tv
Hope Time Good
Mormon
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There's been a lot of Catholic parody - 'Nunsense,' 'Sister Mary Ignatius' - I think they've almost been done to death, actually.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Sister
Catholic
Mary
Parody
Almost
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Whenever someone wants to say something to a whole mass of people by breaking into song, there's probably something wrong with them.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Mass
Song
Breaking
Wrong
Wants
Whenever
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The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Boredom
Creative
Creative Process
Frustration
Process
Self-doubt
Temptation
Quit
Start
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In 'Winnie the Pooh,' a lot of the characters have serious flaws: Pooh is sort of a food addict. Rabbit is OCD, and Owl is a compulsive liar.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Addict
Flaws
Serious
Characters
Compulsive
Liar
Rabbit
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Filipino pride. I'm so excited, I'm just sending love to the Philippines. I know they've had a tough year and I just send out my feelings to them.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Feelings
Pride
Years
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If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Uplifting
Emotional
Feelings
Giving
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I'm sort of agnostic. I grew up Catholic and switched to Episcopalian in college because I sang in churches to have money to buy pizza and french fries.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Agnostic
Catholic
French Fries
Pizza
Churches
French
Episcopalian
Sang
Switched
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I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a state of anxiety.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Anxiety
Fun
Happy Go Lucky
Relaxed
Writing
I Am Me Feel
Puts
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People try not to think about what's going on in sub-Saharan Africa. They edit it out of their daily lives. Especially Americans. We prefer a fantasy version of Africa.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Sub Saharan Africa
Version
Daily Lives
Edit
Sub-Saharan
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I don't think I met an actual Mormon until college, and by that time, I was wary of them. I knew about the church through school and, secondhand, through non-Mormon friends.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Actual
Mormon
Secondhand
Wary
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I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in shows, but my true interest is in writing Broadway musicals.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Broadway
Theatrical
Broadway Musicals
Puppet
Musicals
Uses
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I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Funny
Sad
Humor
Cynical
Dumb
Hopeful
Levels
Multiple
Profound
Sense Of Humor
Smart
Thinking
Funny Time Work
Funny Time Sad
Same
Same Time
Sense
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I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work. For some reason, I always have an irrational fear that the song will never be finished.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Irrational
Reveal
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If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them. And you're not going to do that by bumming them out.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Uplifting
Something Special
Stays
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With comedy, the jokes will come out, and people will see them coming. Changes in daily life or current events can change the consciousness of audiences and can make the show less funny or feel more stale.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Funny
Comedy
Consciousness
Current Events
Daily Life
Stale
Audiences
Less
Coming
Current
Daily
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People are born with the ability to make judgments. And they can't help but use the information they have to divine something about the world they're in. Making categorical judgments, in large, helps our society.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Divine
Society World People
Categorical
Judgments
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The things that I have done that haven't been as successful have been things that have been largely out of the public view, which is great. It's terrible, when you're a theater writer, to have a big flop publicly.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Flop
Largely
Publicly
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We love the great Disney songs - they have always inspired us in our work and in our lives! But for 'Let It Go,' we looked elsewhere - to powerful female singer-songwriters like Tori Amos, Aimee Mann, Sara Bareilles, Adele.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Elsewhere
Love Work Great
Adele
Disney
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It's very hard to go from the intense self-criticism you need to have during previews to all of a sudden letting go of it and trying to enjoy the moment, but I'm doing my best and I'm finally beginning to relax a little bit.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Letting Go
Relax
Trying
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I don't know if I have good habits, but I'm very devoted to writing. I'm very compulsive about having a project, at least one, and trying to follow the business as much as I can. I keep on top of all the entertainment business news.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Devoted
Entertainment Business
Good Habits
At Least One
Habits
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I thought it would be really cool to show the world the inner life of someone like me, who doesn't have a huge personality, who deals with some personal demons and is a little bit shy and a little awkward when you first get to know me.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Awkward
Deals
Inner Life
Shy
Demons
Inner
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When we wrote 'Avenue Q,' we worked hard to create something that could be funny and satirical but also had some surprise moments of heart, moments when the music itself could become a central player and create something sweet and moving.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Moments
Satirical
Surprise
Avenue
Central
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Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Choices
Thinking
Tv Shows
Time Work Music
Envisioned
Work Time Music
Further
Onstage
Tv Show
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It's wonderful to be able to have such wildly different projects in your body of work. They don't feel different to me as I'm working on them. It feels like they all share this element of subversiveness and finding the joy in subversiveness.
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Your Body
Element
Wildly
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If all you have is satire, your show will close. Even if all you have is comedy, your show will close. The hardest thing is not making people laugh: the hardest thing is building an emotional story. Any child can make a group of adults laugh.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Hardest Thing
Satire
People Laugh Comedy
The Hardest Thing
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This is one of my lesser moments, and one I'm not proud to admit to, but there's always a time I feel the need to have control over the process and try to defend the song from the person I'm writing with. It never, ever helps and always causes problems.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Causes
Admit
Defend
Lesser
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When you're trying to do a traditional book musical like 'Book of Mormon,' it's always nice to have characters that could very naturally break into song, and its good to pick a subject matter that allows that to happen in a way that doesn't disarm the audience.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Subject Matter
Good Always Way
Good Song Way
Disarm
Mormon
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It's so important, after a song is finished, to go to sleep and listen to the song with fresh ears the next day. It's sometimes a traumatic event. And playing it for someone else for the first time - that is the most nerve-wracking thing of all. But we learn so much.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Ears
Time Day Song
Traumatic
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I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do true rhymes, because that's the tradition of it, but I do think that in order for the art form to grow, it's important to not let tradition get in the way of innovation.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Innovation
Musical
Musical Theater
Needs
Theater
Tradition
Advocate
Art Form
Rhymes
Writes
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I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do true rhymes, because that's the tradition of it, but I do think that in order for the art form to grow, it's important to not let tradition get in the way of innovation. There's all kinds of reasons not to use true rhyme in a lyric, like with off-color humor.
Robert Lopez / Songwriter
Art
Thinking
Writing
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