Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

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

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.