"A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music."

-- Marya Mannes

#Sobriety Quotes #Musical Quotes #Passionate Quotes

“I'm happy to be everybody's gay best friend.”
“I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved--unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him.”
“You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.”
“Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?”
“Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.”
“We all have levels of performance.”
“I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe how enthusiastic the audience was for it. It was just extraordinary. It felt like you were at a rock concert, which was just unusual for shows at Cherry Lane, which are usually intimate plays about big ideas, you know.”

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“To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.”

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