Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

I wanted to write for Broadway.

I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did.

My first success was 'Little Shop of Horrors,' and I had been working for years on jingles.

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

I have rarely met a musical I haven't liked.

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

People think I got rich out of 'Swan, but I didn't at all: it's the royalties from 'Oliver' and 'My Fair Lady' that have kept me going.

I hope Green Day write more for the theater. They're brilliant at it.

Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.

I've heard everyone do 'Bring Him Home' from 'Les Miserables.' When Colm Wilkinson did it, I truly never thought I would hear anyone as good, never mind better.

'The Light in the Piazza' is one of my top three musicals of all time.

Love me some Tom Kitt; he's awesome in every way.

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.

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!

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

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.

Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.

I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music.

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

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.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.