Certainly Quote by Alan Menken

“Most of my collaborations, certainly post - Howard Ashman but even with Howard, are music first.”

Alan Menken

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I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.

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Every time I play 'Part of Your World,' a whole part of my life comes back to me. It's just inescapable - it was…

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My first success was 'Little Shop of Horrors,' and I had been working for years on jingles.

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Part of the job is knowing how to use this medium in the most effective way for the story you're telling, so for me,…

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I'll always work with my collaborator in the room so I have a reaction on a note-by-note basis. I know in my gut when…

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I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the simplicity and…

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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…

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I see my songs and shows almost like a mosaic - part of a bigger picture.

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I have an awards cabinet in my studio where I keep my eight Oscars, my 11 Grammys, my seven Golden Globes, and my Tony Award.

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My favorite thing is a brand-new project from scratch because you really never know how they're going to come to life. Going back for…

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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…

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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…

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