Kander Quotes

#1. I always wanted to play Roxie Hart in Chicago and also Sally Bowles in Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, but I have a feeling I won't now! I've also always wanted to play Maria in The Sound of Music, but don't suppose I'll ever do that either!

Marti Webb

#2. There needs to be more Kander & Ebbs and Rodgers & Harts and people like that out there. But, it's so hard to get something looked at and on.

Ruthie Henshall

#3. Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York ... New York ... New York, New York - Fred Ebb/John Kander

Karla M. Nashar

#4. There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

John Kander

#5. More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.

Adam D'Angelo

#6. In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.

Pierre Omidyar

#7. Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

Alan Moore

#8. That's on purpose. The problem and the solution are totally independent of one another. First, you have to prove that the problem exists, that it's a serious problem that amounts to a migraine. Then we can worry about whether customers will actually buy your product as a solution. Make sense?

Diana Kander

#9. Are you a dreamer or a doer? Hopefully you are both because a dream with no action is just a dream and a plan with no ending goal is senseless direction. Follow and accomplish your dreams with a plan of action!

Augusta DeJuan Hathaway

#10. It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.

Auliq Ice

#11. Transparency once meant being able to "open the hood" to see how things worked. Now, with the Macintosh meaning of transparency dominant in the computer culture, it means quite the opposite: being able to use a program without knowing how it works.

Sherry Turkle

#12. Well, where is she ? Where the colossal / Mountains of smoke stand. / That thing there amongst the fires / Is her.

Bertolt Brecht

#13. Oh, the gardens of the future that we are all sowing every day!

Elizabeth Cheney

#14. No one ever said that making love had to be a gently-flowing river which slowly became a flood. Sometimes the raging torrent came first. As it did now, as tempers drove it and the desire to fight each other became as compelling as the desire to drown in each other's surging swell.

Michelle Reid

#15. The hardest situation to pick up a girl in is ... in church and in Morocco on Ramadan. On Ramadan or one of those religious days? Try to pick up a girl is bananas.

French Montana

#16. I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

John Kander

#17. It is their everlasting switching that is the dangerous thing, not what they choose

Sheila Heti

#18. London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted."

Keith Murray

#19. History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

Margaret MacMillan

#20. there's something satisfying and liberating about covering ground solely by moving our own bodies.

Dana L. Ayers

#21. Money makes the world go round.

John Kander