Idina Menzel Quotes

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

Making dance music was one of the best things I did in my life. I traveled the world; I met the most amazing fans. I got a lot of respect from doing it.

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

I suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

Somewhere during the 'Next to Normal' Broadway run, I found myself learning more about myself onstage than in real life, and I truly realized the beautiful, tremendous, extraordinary gift that is performing.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when a novel goes wrong, but there is a kind of magic that can and should happen.

To me, being in the studio is one of the most exciting parts about being an artist.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.