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Quotes About Performance

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
~ Brian Eno
I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.
~ Idina Menzel
It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.
~ Alia Shawkat
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
~ Marsha Norman
I'm always working out; I did ice hockey in high school, but I'm not a dance person. I mean, this was horrible, but I had a dance double in my high-school musical.
~ Eliza Coupe
I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'
~ Sarah Shahi
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
~ Steve Earle
'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.
~ Lea Salonga
I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.
~ Carol Burnett
I had an edge in 'Andhadhun' because, being a musician, I knew how to play a guitar, so it was not difficult for me to learn a musical instrument.
~ Ayushmann Khurrana
I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!
~ Danny Strong
Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.
~ Christian Borle
I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.
~ Scott Bakula
I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.
~ Chris Pine
I started in musical theater as a little girl in Houston.
~ Chandra Wilson
Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
~ Zac Efron
I went to school for musical theater, and that is such a huge, central part of me.
~ Helene Yorke
I've done music as a hobby, either in musical theater or just jamming with friends, pretty much for as long as I can remember.
~ Alissa White-Gluz
I've found that musical theater is my passion.
~ Samantha Barks
I was heavily involved in musical theater.
~ Brad Goreski
I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
~ Idina Menzel
I love singing! I grew up in musical theater.
~ Juliette Goglia
I've always been interested in music. In high school, I did a lot of musical theater, and I loved it.
~ Rosanna Pansino
I love theater. That's what I did in Mexico City. I did a lot of musical theater, and it's where my heart is.
~ Jaime Camil