About Quote by Diane Paulus

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether…

— John Kander

Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema .

— Erich Wolfgang Korngold

The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid…

— Saul Williams

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

— Simon McBurney

Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is…

— Robert Lepage

To me music is the sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition. It's both…

— Warren Jeffs

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

— Ian McShane

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone…

— Asghar Farhadi

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through the whole…

— Colin Callender

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text -…

— Simon McBurney