Allegiance Quote by Lea Salonga

It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel.

— Simon Raymonde

When you're trying to do a traditional book musical like 'Book of Mormon,' it's always nice to have characters that could very naturally break…

— Robert Lopez

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

— Cat Stevens

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

— Chris Stein

There's a unique component of music that is different from, the written pamphlet or a speech. There's something, when you get the right combination…

— Tom Morello

It's really hard to learn songwriting from a book.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

— John Tesh

“Music can act as an invisible uniting force that claims the unclaimed and defines the outcasts of a culture.”

— Bob Boilen

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time…

— Stephen Sondheim

Songwriting's a weird game.

— Keith Richards

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head…

— John Scofield

You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children's story.

— Jacob Collier