You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

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

The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America!

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

Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.