Best quotes by Alan Menken on Song

Checkout quotes by Alan Menken on Song

• ‟ I'm very proud of 'Will the Sun Ever Shine Again.' That was a song written very close to the 9/11 event.

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• ‟ It's writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process that's broader than just figuring out a song. You're also dealing with always pushing the story forward, with casting the voices, with the orchestration, with the arrangements.

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• ‟ I always wanted to have a villain song for Hades in 'Hercules,' but I couldn't figure out how we would have Hades sing.

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• ‟ I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.

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• ‟ When 'Newsies' first came out, it just crash-landed with a thud; it won a Razzie for worst song of the year, and I felt such embarrassment. Fast-forward, and it's a hit on Broadway, and I win a Tony for the score!

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• ‟ I love 'The Gospel Truth,' the song that opened up 'Hercules.' I thought that song was a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed producing that and writing that.

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• ‟ The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

  - Alan Menken