Yeston Quotes

#1. The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Maury Yeston

#2. I am usually a pacer. I go to the balcony to check the sight lines way up there, to check the sound system to see how the balance is.

Maury Yeston

#3. The Christian life is Christ living through a man, not a man trying to be Christ.

Dan DeHaan

#4. Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.

Maury Yeston

#5. The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.

Maury Yeston

#6. I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

Maury Yeston

#7. Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.

Maury Yeston

#8. I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

James Frecheville

#9. As we get older ... I don't know a single person who has devoted their life to musical theatre who hasn't had a couple of misses as well as a bunch of hits. The misses, we learn a great deal from them.

Maury Yeston

#10. For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To Watch Over Me.' Or Larry Hart and Richard Rodgers. Or some of the great Cole Porter songs, whether it's 'Night and Day' or some of the comedy songs. Or Irving Berlin, of course.

Maury Yeston

#11. I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Maury Yeston

#12. The funny thing is while the grown-ups in the family may indulge, we really try to offer our son Duke clean food, as all his meals are made with organic ingredients as the rest of us eat cookies straight out of the freezer.

Bill Rancic

#13. In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

Danica Patrick

#14. Rodgers & Hart had a few flops before they clicked. You know, it happens. I don't know anyone who always gets away with everything.

Maury Yeston

#15. Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

Maury Yeston

#16. What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.

Maury Yeston

#17. The only weight I ever lifted weighed 24 ounces. It was a Schlitz. I always replaced my fluids.

Art Donovan

#18. Joy's a subtil elf. I think man's happiest when he forgets himself.

George MacDonald