Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten.

I love singing! I grew up in musical theater.

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.

I love musicals. I grew up on musicals.

Zooey Deschanel loves music, loves musical theater, loves the show of it.

I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.

I want to write musicals for my whole life. I always did.

When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

I write music.

A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

I'm a songwriter.

Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty much, you approach the songs in pretty much the same way.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.