Menken Quotes

#1. I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

Kara Lindsay

#2. Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

Dave Koz

#3. Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.

Mandy Moore

#4. To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.

Mallory Jansen

#5. What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.

Alan Menken

#6. Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

Adah Isaacs Menken

#7. I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.

Alan Menken

#8. If you really accept that global warming puts the world at risk, then you think you would be open to any solution that could undo it.

Steven Levitt

#9. Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

Carl Jung

#10. There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

Adah Isaacs Menken

#11. To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Rowan Williams

#12. I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

Alan Menken

#13. Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.

Jandy Nelson

#14. I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.

Penelope Cruz

#15. Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

Alan Menken

#16. If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.

Alan Menken

#17. Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.

Frederick Lenz

#18. I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

Jack White

#19. Jaenelle squirmed. My ... mate ... is trapped in the Twisted Kingdom. If I don't show him the way out, he'll be destroyed.

Anne Bishop

#20. What makes a monster and what makes a man?

Alan Menken

#21. I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

Alan Menken

#22. I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.

Sydney Brenner

#23. I will find my way
I can go the distance
I'll be there someday
If I can be strong
I know every mile will be worth my while
I would go most anywhere to feel like I belong

Alan Menken

#24. She would think about how her breath had stuck in her throat when he had looked into her eyes. How fierce and protective he had been. How rugged and masculine he had looked with several days of stubble on his cheeks and chin.

Melanie Dickerson

#25. There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

Adah Isaacs Menken

#26. The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.

Alan Menken

#27. Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.

Adah Isaacs Menken