Crafts Quote by Leonard Michaels Download Open image “The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.” — Leonard Michaels ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crafts Prose Prose Singing Singing Singing Song Song Song Story Stories Story telling Writing
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 Copy Share Image
The key to performing a song isn't always about hitting the right notes, but about telling a story. — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
It's writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process that's broader… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever it is,… — Shura Copy Share Image
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative? — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
It's much easier to write a song for a musical than just writing a song because, writing for a musical, you know what the… — Leslie Bricusse Copy Share Image
“March 6, 1961 I remembered a party in a house outside of Ann Arbor. There was a jazz band -- piano, bass, drums, and… — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little. — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought. — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
“Something Evil I said, "Ikstein stands outside the door for a long time before he knocks. Did you suspect that? Did you suspect that… — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
“Answers I began two hundred hours of continuous reading in the twelve hours that remained before examinations. Melvin Bloom my roommate flipped the pages… — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle. — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world. — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another. — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image