Music Quote by Neil Tennant

When I was starting out, there was a big gap between pop music and show music. But thanks to 'Hair,' theater songs could become…

— Stephen Schwartz

It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really -…

— Julian Ovenden

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

You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They…

— Stanley Donen

I think the genre of musical theatre, when it started, the pop songwriters of the time were writing the music. I think sometimes when…

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

The point of songs in theater is that you're supposed to end up in a different place than where you started.

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

I think we sublimated our Broadway desires by doing theater in Hollywood - not on stage but by doing the movies of 'Chicago' and…

— Craig Zadan

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

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are…

— Tom Wopat

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

People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs.

— Dennis DeYoung

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded…

— Betty Buckley