Great Musical Theater Quotes

#1. Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.

Rachel Bloom

#2. I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

Joseph Haydn

#3. I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

Laura Benanti

#4. Every day we have a special reason to make a good celebration! And that reason is our very existence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

Neil Tennant

#6. Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

Chris Pine

#7. Without error there can be no brilliancy

Emanuel Lasker

#8. The world, someone once said, gives back what is given. In abundance. But then, as Kallor would point out, someone was always saying something. Until he got fed up and had them executed.

Steven Erikson

#9. If Satan has toeholds that allow him to claw and climb from the underworld to this one, they lie in our failure to see ourselves in others.

Lisa Wingate

#10. Mrs. Brown, whose primary job on the island

Pat Conroy

#11. She even takes the goings-on of fictitious characters personally.

Laura Buzo

#12. It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that's conjecture. It's more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century.

Jay Parini

#13. Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.

Jane McGonigal

#14. Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

Warren Buffett

#15. Calzada de Calatrava, as Almadovar's brother once put it, 'is the sort of place where people spend their whole life saving for a decent gravestone in the cemetery.

Giles Tremlett

#16. When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

Leslie Easterbrook

#17. What hands do I possess?
What sight!
What deliberations do I confess?
What plight!

Ashfaq Saraf

#18. It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

Alia Shawkat