Stephen Schwartz

Bringing your show to Broadway is an economic decision on the part of producers and investors that may or may not happen,…

— Stephen Schwartz

You wouldn't walk into a music store and walk out with a piece of music under your arm. So why would it…

— Stephen Schwartz

There have always been discussions about a 'Pippin' movie. I think it would lend itself very well to film if one could…

— Stephen Schwartz

When I was in high school, I worked at a theatre on Long Island, where I grew up, in the box office…

— Stephen Schwartz

When I perform I try and focus on the lyrics and my interpretation of the lyrics.

— Stephen Schwartz

I think it would be really cool to see 'Enchanted' on Broadway - there's been discussion of it from time to time.…

— Stephen Schwartz

I was very happy in Hollywood. I was doing extremely well there and things were good.

— Stephen Schwartz

That was what I always wanted to do for my whole life, to write music in the service of telling stories and…

— Stephen Schwartz

I had always been interested in opera, going back to my college days at Carnegie Mellon. In my last year there, I…

— Stephen Schwartz

With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics…

— Stephen Schwartz

In 'Wicked,' we developed the concept that Glinda has a public persona who sings in soprano and a private persona who is,…

— Stephen Schwartz

Alan Menken is so gifted in terms of coming up with these great melodies. What I learned from working with him was…

— Stephen Schwartz

I like works about familiar stories, where one spins the point of view and looks at it from another angle.

— Stephen Schwartz

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

— Stephen Schwartz

Dancers are the unsung heroes Broadway musicals.

— Stephen Schwartz

“ELPHABA Hands touch, eyes meet Sudden silence, sudden heat Hearts leap in a giddy whirl He could be that boy But I'm…

— Stephen Schwartz

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if…

— Stephen Schwartz

Start a new fashion, wear your heart on your sleeveSometimes you reach what's real just by making believeUnafraid, unashamedThere is joy to…

— Stephen Schwartz

Our newer wonderful writers such as Lin-Manuel Miranda and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are clearly so well-informed about the history of…

— Stephen Schwartz

What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some…

— Stephen Schwartz

I'm through accepting limits ''cause someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too…

— Stephen Schwartz

I usually like to try to find a title as quickly as I can and work from the title, and then it…

— Stephen Schwartz

You couldn't help but absorb so much from a figure like Leonard Bernstein, not only working with him but just being someone…

— Stephen Schwartz

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

— Stephen Schwartz

Musical theater tends to be word-driven, whereas opera gives you so much more scope for driving the story with the music.

— Stephen Schwartz