Inherit the wind Quote by Jerome Lawrence

A musical by its very nature doesn't allow for a lot of nuances.

— Aparna Sen

Anything can be a musical if it makes sense for it to be a musical.

— Michael Patrick Walker

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

— Marsha Norman

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

— Agnes Obel

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

— Lou Reed

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

— Shane Koyczan

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

— Bruce Beresford

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

— Julie Taymor

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

— Jose Carreras

I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents…

— Bertie Carvel

One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.

— Tim Rice

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all…

— Claude Debussy