Musical Drama Quotes

Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

I'd love to do a musical on the lines of 'Salangai Oli,' 'Sankarabharanam' and 'Sindhu Bhairavi.'

If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that. But, if you just see it as one guy's point of view, one filmmaker's point of view, and one story among many stories that can be told about jazz, then it's not as much of an issue.

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

Ever since 'Hail to the King,' we've been more cognizant of our chord progressions, our key changes, drama in songs, a lot of dynamics - we've really added a lot of that in there.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.

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

'ABCD...' was a dance movie, but it had an emotional story, and now 'ABCD 2' is a very emotional film, too.

Kind of the critical acclaim of this movie [La La Land] is that it's striking a chord with the public in a way that has been really beautiful and powerful.

In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.

I had two good films: 'ABCD2' and 'Bajirao Mastani.'

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

When I left New York, not a lot of shows were happening there, but 'Golden Boy' is such a New York show.

I like watching a 'Ram Leela.' I like my dance and song.

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

There isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job.