Composer Quote by George M. Cohan

Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

— Jerome Kern

A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We…

— Ian Williams

With some actors, if I have upward of 10 notes, I don't want to give them all 10 notes and overwhelm them. I usually…

— Sam Esmail

It's easy to have an act one and two. Go ahead and have an act three, four, and five. The saying is the easy…

— Ginni Rometty

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

— August Wilson

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

— John Densmore

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

— Miles Davis

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one…

— Michel Legrand

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony,…

— David Ives

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone…

— Paul Lansky

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

— Edward Albee

I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and I'd just…

— Sam Shepard