Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

The only reason to write is from love.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

One small hand lifted to the shower head and he stilled. He’d yet to see her skin

Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

Worst thing about Al Smith dinner : it was another reminder of how far we are from the amity between opposing sides that is needed for effective governance.

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.