Rufus Wainwright Quotes

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.

It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

I love live theatre, it's always thrilling and exciting.

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.

Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.

I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.

I play sad bastard music. For the money.

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.