Alan Menken famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Writing #Journey #People
Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work - it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.
-- Alan Menken

#Hard Work #Ideas #Perspective
Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty much you approach the songs in pretty much the same way. The difference might be that in a film you have a close up. On stage you don't. So there are more songs on the stage because the songs are kind of the close up.
-- Alan Menken

#Song #Musical #Kind
The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.
-- Alan Menken

#Writing #Levels #Firsts
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

#Proud #Projects #Score
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

#Song #Writing #Important
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

#Land #Today #Way
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

#People #Musical #Regimes
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

#Moving #Order #Half

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Alan Menken famous quotes

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