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I have the ability to clear the decks and focus on what's happening in the moment. And I get to spend my life doing what I love to do.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Deck
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I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Projects
Proud
Score
Scores
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I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.
Gordon Getty
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Musical Composer
Humble
Innovation
Opinion
Thinking
Added
Bach
Evolving
Humble Opinion
Innovations
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I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.
Nico Muhly
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Musical Composer
Availability
People
Phones
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It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.
Gordon Getty
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Musical Composer
Daydreaming
Distracted
Style
Daydream
Business Music I Am
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I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.
Paul Lansky
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Musical Composer
Numbers
People
Thinking
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I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.
Jason Robert Brown
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Musical Composer
Begging
Musician
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I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them. What I do is very different.
Jason Robert Brown
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Musical Composer
Mormon
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I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.
Nico Muhly
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Musical Composer
Ideas
Known
Way
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I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well... who actually becomes a composer?'
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Nyu
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I can't get into the underlying psyche of someone like Robin Williams, but he was at that level of fame where he was somewhat self-protective.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Somewhat
Psyche
Robin
Underlying
Williams
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I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.
Jason Robert Brown
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Musical Composer
Beautifully
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I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.
Mitch Leigh
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Musical Composer
Jail
Lock
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I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Important
Song
Writing
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If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Journey
People
Writing
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There are actors I have very strong chemical responses to, and I strive always to figure out ways to work with them and get them to sing my stuff.
Jason Robert Brown
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Musical Composer
Strive
Chemical
Responses
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Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Best Work
Normally
Stretch
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I was always drawn to music. It consumed my thoughts and when I realized I could make people feel something through music that is all I wanted to do.
John Swihart
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Musical Composer
Feels
My Thoughts
People
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Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.
Nico Muhly
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Musical Composer
Emotional
Together
Writing
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I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There's a lot of architecture in our songs.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Architecture
Dramatic
Context
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Most things that I write are in very specific forms. A score will have a shape and profile, and then the more emotional and intimate moments will come.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Intimate
Profile
Score
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You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?
Jason Robert Brown
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Musical Composer
Artist
Control Freak
Freak
Protect
Vision
Supposed
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Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Bigger
Connected
Successful
People Will Feel
Attach
Concept
People Feel Will
Immediately
Musicals
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Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Association
Notes
Vocabulary
Life Music World
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I love 'The Gospel Truth,' the song that opened up 'Hercules.' I thought that song was a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed producing that and writing that.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Enjoyed
Fun
Song
Gospel
Hercules
Opened
Producing
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I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.
Paul Lansky
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Musical Composer
Bridges
Past
Years
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I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.
Paul Lansky
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Musical Composer
Computer
Figures
Way
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Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.
Jason Robert Brown
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Musical Composer
Communist
Control Freak
Freak
Light Bulb
Bare
Bulb
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I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.
Gordon Getty
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Musical Composer
Century
Newspapers
Yesterday
Belong
Composers
Mine
Says
Topical
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The things I tend to do best are the things that are the most overtly emotional, whether it's sentimental or whether it's celebratory or whether it's conflicted.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Sentimental
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When you think of Mitch Leigh as a businessman, remember he's also a composer. And when you think of Mitch Leigh as a composer, remember he's also a businessman.
Mitch Leigh
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Musical Composer
Leigh
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I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Half
Moving
Order
Move Forward
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Live-action films are very much a director's medium, and that director is going to be a very strong voice, a stronger individual voice than you'd have in animation.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Medium
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I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through music in lots of different styles of music.'
Christopher Lennertz
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Musical Composer
Jobs
Different
Style
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Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.
Gordon Getty
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Musical Composer
Civilization
Dodge
Ideas
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I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.
Gordon Getty
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Musical Composer
Curse
Dodge
Worthwhile
Family Music Me
Helped
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Movies, there are moments when you're writing a song or demoing, a moment in the recording studio. Musicals much more just eat up your life for a certain period of time.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Recording Studio
Life Time Movies
Musicals
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The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.
Cornelius Cardew
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Musical Composer
Exactitude
Important
Sound
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If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.
Gordon Getty
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Musical Composer
Giving
Need You
Needs
Sponsor
Whom
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When I first started working at Disney animation, I can't tell you how many people said to me, 'Oh, man, take a powder.' Nobody takes animated musicals seriously. I swear.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Animated
Powder
Swear
Man Me People
Disney
How Many People
Musicals
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As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock stars: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Bob
Classical Music
Dylan
Rolling Stones
Stones
Beethoven
Bob Dylan
Classical
Composers
Rock Stars
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I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.
Mitch Leigh
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Musical Composer
Absence
Believe
Cynicism
Laughing
Thinking
Believe Will I Believe
Believe I Believe Will
Concept
Infectious
Laugh
Nicely
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When I was younger, I'd get very invested in things. It's a hard lesson to learn, but you have to know that if you want to find gold, you've got to love the process of digging.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Digging
Hard Lesson
Invested
Lesson
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Truth be told, of course, what I enjoy most is reinventing myself and doing new projects where I work in new genres, or I get to find what the voice of a particular musical is.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
New Projects
Reinventing
Genres
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It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.
Paul Lansky
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Musical Composer
Interesting
Thinking
Wife
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Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Composing
Collaborator
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'Snow White' was really hip for its time. Walt Disney was basically using Sigmund Romberg and operetta in the telling of the story, and through animation - that was revolutionary.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Animation
Revolutionary
Snow
Snow White
Walt
White
Basically
Disney
Hip
Telling
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I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.
Jason Robert Brown
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Musical Composer
Deny
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Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm and, I think, should elicit an emotion of happiness or of celebration or of sadness or of sorrow or of love or laughter, whatever.
Alan Menken
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Musical Composer
Celebration
Laughter
Melody
Rhythm
Sadness
Sorrow
Elicit
Infectious
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As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me.
Jason Robert Brown
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Musical Composer
Character Me Anything
Character Me I Can
Costume
Needing
Onstage
Utterly
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