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“Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.”

Knows Voice Audience Color Understood Paint Musical Shade Nuance

Author:Galina Vishnevskaya

“Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.”

Made Said Real Mother Black Justice Audience Talent Hollywood Musical Offensive Stereotype All Black Real Talent

Book:The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

Source: The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

“I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.”

Trying Audience Generations Theater Musical New Generation Musical Theater

Author:Jerry Herman

“When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all, but they're not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing.”

Stuff Black Loses White Audience Comedy Nice Cutting Crazy Musical Albums

Author:Chris Rock

“You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way. You can't have one without the other. So I think the rebellion is reflected in the audience, but at the same time, the artist has to have that passion too. And I think once you're a fan for life, you feed each other's sense of passion and rage and whatnot. You really can't have one without the other.”

Thinking Way Needs Artist Passion Audience Fans Response Musical Rage Fuel Rebellion

Author:Corey Taylor

“A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.”

Audience Worst Musical Ill Passionate Boxes Orchestra Geometry Sobriety Respectability Uninspiring

Book:Message from a Stranger: A Novel

Source: Message from a Stranger: A Novel

“I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with material and as long as you're coming up with the material and as long as audiences like it, you just keep doing it, it's your job.”

Long Shows Jobs Artist Audience Materials Musical Touring

Author:Jeff Dunham

“I feel Britannia High is aimed at an older audience than High School Musical. Britannia High is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top.”

Feels School Audience Serious Drama High School Musical Music And Dance High School Musical

Author:Mitch Hewer

“People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.”

People Heart Song Audience Bird Ears Dancing Musical Lions Listening To Music Cavemen Bird Song

Author:Marsha Norman

“The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.”

Audience Musical Familiar Welcome Beloved Beloved Friends

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.”

Young Used Interest Audience Easier Musical Conservative Boundaries Pushing Bells Noisy Assertive Schubert

Author:Michael Tilson Thomas

“I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when they discover life isn't always like High School Musical.”

Want Helping School Next Grows Audience Growing Up High School Musical Hopefully Life Experience Phases Living My Life High School Musical

Author:Zac Efron

“I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part of the thing. It's like Elizabethan theater. You play the scene, and then you turn - the audience is part of it.”

Play Turns Actors Audience Comedy Scene Theater Musical Elizabethan

Author:Christopher Walken

“Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.”

Together Film Certain Audience Pieces Beats Absolutes Musical Stuck Rhythm Composition Musical Composition

Author:John Carpenter

“Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound of the Choir can move and uplift and restore spirits like no other sound. Masters of their craft, each and every singer plays a vital role in helping maintain such a fantastic musical tradition. Long may the Choir prosper and continue to the delight of audiences around the world.”