Album Quote by Les Baxter

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of…

— Stephen Sondheim

Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.

— Daveed Diggs

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

— Les Baxter

Somewhere along the line, a concert became a variety show. It was no longer enough for four dudes to play together in front of…

— Shawn Amos

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

— Kelis

Musicals weren't on my radar.

— David Bryan

Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height…

— Phil Lesh

They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back…

— Lester Bowie

The Broadway schedule is so tough, so relentless there was almost no time to enjoy all the stuff.

— John Cariani

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

— Lee Konitz

Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

— Darren Criss

I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era…

— Carmen Ejogo