Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

In essence the journey to wisdom is a study of self, The conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious self.

Scars are the medals of success, not the glitters or the gold.

So let’s raise our glass to the accident season, To the river beneath us where we sink our souls, To the bruises and secrets, to the ghosts in the ceiling, One more drink for the watery road.

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.

And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Julian Edelman. He's the worst dancer.