Making a musical television show was always the ultimate…

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with…

— Midge Ure

I've always written songs. I learned guitar when I was 9 or 10 years old and it sort of developed from there. When I…

— Declan McKenna

I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.

— Ian Brown

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making…

— Jerome Lawrence

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

— Dick Van Dyke

I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of the bow,…

— Tod Machover

I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make…

— Harold Prince

The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.

— Megan Hilty

We've definitely talked about making a musical episode. We definitely need to make that happen. Let's get Lin-Manuel Miranda on the phone. He's a…

— Isa Briones

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

— Harold Prince

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

— Rupert Holmes

There was a technique to making a musical. It took a long time for the studios to learn it, and it was very complicated.

— Cyd Charisse

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

— Baz Luhrmann

But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and…

— Joe Mantello

I don't understand how other producers who have no experience making a musical jump in and produce one.

— Craig Zadan