Michael Patrick Walker famous quotes

Anything can be a musical if it makes sense for it to be a musical.
-- Michael Patrick Walker

#Musical #Make Sense

There's really no way to duplicate how someone gets from the beginning to the end of an idea.
-- Michael Patrick Walker

#Ideas #Way #Ends

When you write a show, you just never know if it will have a future or if the show will end up ever having a production, but, that doesn't mean that the songs - the best of the best songs - can't be pulled out and put on a CD. And, if the shows that they come from end up happening, then people will regard this as like a quirky little concept recording. And, if the shows don't end up happening, at least the songs will live on in some capacity.
-- Michael Patrick Walker

#Song #Writing #Mean

There is nothing better than getting something in front of an audience in a less stressful setting than previews!
-- Michael Patrick Walker

#Stressful #Audience #Preview

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.

No sense makes sense.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.

I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.

It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense.

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.