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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

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Gotta watch out for directors.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

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