Best Quote by Elvis Mitchell

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

— Borns

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I personally feel like certain topics and certain issues aren't really being conveyed the right way in music nowadays. It's all very direct and…

— Omarion

“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”

— Iain McGilchrist

“The possibility of a musical modernity that was not characterized by sensationalism”

— Alain Frogley

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

— Aulis Sallinen

“It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing…

— Colin Meloy

“I’ve always thought it absurd for words to be added to music because I think music is a language, perhaps not a more precise…

— Fernando Sorrentino

Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a…

— George C. Wolfe

“Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion. ”

— Brian McLaren

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

— Jonathan Safran Foer