"I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience."

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Jerry Herman

#Musical Quotes #Trying Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.”
“One score makes happy ONE player, one assist makes happy TWO.”
“I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, "Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country."”
“Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.”
“Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.”
“Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.”
“Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.”
“Without trying to get too self-indulgent, there's a fine line between making something that's soundtracky and cinematic, or making it sound like a bad 70s prog-rock record.”

Source : "And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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