Definition Quote by Rachel Bloom

It's the basic rule of musicals: Characters sing when their emotions become so intense that they can't do anything else.

— Tom Kitt

Anything can be a musical if it makes sense for it to be a musical.

— Michael Patrick Walker

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is…

— Amanda Seyfried

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment –…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get…

— David Bryan

Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of course music…

— Tim Crane

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

— Marsha Norman

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what…

— Trey Parker

To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has…

— Alan Alda

The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light…

— Gene Kelly

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

— Anthony Head