Able Quote by Stephen Schwartz Download Open image “It's always good to be able to use vermin in a song.” — Stephen Schwartz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Always Good Song Use
Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
“Songs given at night will bury themselves (as seeds do) in the dark in you, to shoot a shoot up come morning. Come, give… — Allison Boyd Justus Copy Share Image
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I like walking and hiking, and many of the ideas for songs have germinated from this. — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like. — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs. — Peter Hammill Copy Share Image
I'm working on one of the projects at a time and I'm the zone of that project. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Bringing your show to Broadway is an economic decision on the part of producers and investors that may or may not happen, but sharing… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
You wouldn't walk into a music store and walk out with a piece of music under your arm. So why would it be acceptable… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
There have always been discussions about a 'Pippin' movie. I think it would lend itself very well to film if one could solve how… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I worked at a theatre on Long Island, where I grew up, in the box office and parking… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
When I perform I try and focus on the lyrics and my interpretation of the lyrics. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
I think it would be really cool to see 'Enchanted' on Broadway - there's been discussion of it from time to time. You'd have… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
I was very happy in Hollywood. I was doing extremely well there and things were good. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
That was what I always wanted to do for my whole life, to write music in the service of telling stories and communicating ideas… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in opera, going back to my college days at Carnegie Mellon. In my last year there, I even wrote… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics as a… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
In 'Wicked,' we developed the concept that Glinda has a public persona who sings in soprano and a private persona who is, you know,… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
Alan Menken is so gifted in terms of coming up with these great melodies. What I learned from working with him was how to… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
