Harold Prince Quotes

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.

I want to do rock operas.

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.

Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It's so exciting.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

I want to write musicals for my whole life. I always did.

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.

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

My films are musically inclined.

I love getting time to write a piece of music that can settle in and set the tone of the show.

Basically, I'm a melodic writer.

I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm writing a whole new score and all the lyrics for it.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

I write my music.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

I consider myself a composer.

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.