Brain Quote by Daveed Diggs

I think Broadway is waking up to the idea that rap is an incredible tool for telling a musical story.

— Christopher Jackson

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.

— Mike Will Made It

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

— Queen Latifah

Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

— Darren Criss

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

— Questlove

Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.

— Daveed Diggs

To me, rapping is an art.

— Iman Shumpert

Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.

— Danny Brown

Broadway's not what it used to be.

— Betty Comden

The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.

— Naseeruddin Shah

To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.

— Leonard Bernstein

It never even entered my imagination that I could be performing on Broadway.

— Lauren Ridloff