Oscar Hammerstein Quotes
Quotes about Oscar Hammerstein's influence on songwriting
These quotes come from people describing what they learned from Oscar Hammerstein directly — treating a song like a one-act play with a beginning and an end — or reflecting on the Rodgers and Hammerstein era of Music.
I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
Creativity Quotes
I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.
Rogers and Hammerstein were such a genius pair. They were able to touch on subject matter so far ahead of its time.
I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I...
And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers...
Emotion Quotes
I'd love to tackle a classic Shakespeare play or take on Nora Helmer in 'A Doll's House.' Musical theater, it's the classics like Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter's 'Kiss Me Kate.' I'm much more a Julie Andrews-type soprano than...
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.
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into...
It may sound amazing to people today, but Rodgers and Hammerstein were considered by - how can I put it? - the sort of opinion-making tastemakers and everything to be 'off the scale as sentimental.'
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One line calls Hammerstein a surrogate father figure, a reminder that his Legacy was personal as much as professional.
