Audience Quote by Nicholas Hammond

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

— Stephen Sondheim

Rodgers & Hammerstein shows have a purity of unironic emotion that imprints itself upon people's hearts. They seem to touch our feelings so effortlessly.…

— Mary Rodgers

The music and lyrics of Rodgers & Hammerstein connect seamlessly. Singing those beautiful songs was a joyous experience for me, and one that I…

— Julie Andrews

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

— Stephen Sondheim

It's kind of hard to get deep with Rodgers and Hammerstein. I can't think of a moral in the music - it's just fun.

— Jeff Long

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so…

— Bernadette Peters

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on…

— Art Garfunkel

I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B…

— Stephen Sondheim

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

— Tom Waits

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

— Wayne Coyne

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and…

— Milo Aukerman

It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all…

— Nate Ruess