Quotes About Performance

I have done a couple of musicals myself over the years but have never done a Stephen Schwartz show, and I never thought I would be writing one.

I grew up on musicals, and I love them so much.

When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out of the seat.

People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs.

I never got interested in musicals.

We should be so grateful for musicals, and the amount of work that goes into these shows is easily comparable to things I've been in at the National and the RSC. Why do we think it is less important?.

I've always loved singing, and wanted to do musicals. Watching them as a child was what convinced me that I wanted to be a professional.

There's an incredibly grand attitude towards musicals. I don't understand why my profession is so snooty about it.

I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I'd love to do something where I played a musician.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

Of course, we also have to play in concert halls. This is our dream when you are a musician - to play in a good, comfortable hall with a wonderful acoustic.

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!