Menken's Quotes

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

Mallory Jansen

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

Adah Isaacs Menken

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

Dave Koz

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Sometimes skin to ground [is] the most comforting place; nowhere to go but up.

Tabitha Vohn

#8. The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.

Tyler Cowen

#9. In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

Aeschylus

#10. Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation stones whose removal could cause the whole house to collapse.

Rudolf Bahro

#11. It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

Vita Sackville-West

#12. 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

#13. I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

Adam Levine

#14. 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

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

Adah Isaacs Menken

#16. Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

Isabelle Adjani

#17. 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

#18. Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

Harlan Coben

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

Alan Menken

#20. Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

Walter Darby Bannard

#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. - a bad conscience is indeed able to make life interesting.

Soren Kierkegaard

#23. We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

Ray Nagin

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. I BELIEVE IN DESTINY, IN FATE, IN THE MAGIC OF THE UNIVERSE.
I BELIEVE WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER LOVE.
EITHER IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN OR IT'S NOT..

Alexandra Potter

#27. When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.

David Brooks

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

Adah Isaacs Menken

#29. I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character actor.

Britt Robertson

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

Alan Menken

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

Adah Isaacs Menken

#32. You want my advice? Put down your phone. Hug her from behind and kiss the back of her neck. Entwine your fingers with hers ... . You're welcome.

Steve Maraboli