Art Quote by Stephen Schwartz

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

— Simon McBurney

It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who…

— Brooks Atkinson

I find theater emotionally expensive and all-involving. You have to pour so much blood and passion and heart into it. And so much time.…

— Marianne Elliott

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as…

— Amy Hill

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

— Igor Levit

I think one of the traps of theater - what makes it so amazing is that it's not able to be mass-produced, but it…

— Andrew Keenan-Bolger

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

— Sarah Caldwell

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing.…

— Yoko Ono

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both…

— Adrian Younge

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

— Drake Doremus

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

— Ingmar Bergman

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

— David Cook