Character Quote by Sara Bareilles

Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could…

— Frank Wildhorn

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of…

— David Raiklen

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of…

— Trey Anastasio

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

— Julian Ovenden

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

You can treat musicians like actors - you give them a roadmap but don't tell them what to do, and let their personal style…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

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

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

I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and…

— David Bryan

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why…

— Sam Shepard

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

— Ludwig Goransson