Ethan Mordden quotes

“For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.”
-- Ethan Mordden

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“A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may in effect have been working on a different show from all the others. If all contributors do not share the same vision of the evening, the end product will not evince the harmony of diverse elements-the seeming inevitability of book, score, and staging-of a good musical.”
-- Ethan Mordden

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“If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.”
-- Ethan Mordden

Source : Ethan Mordden (2015). “Buddies”, p.99, St. Martin's Griffin

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“Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.”

“I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.”

“I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.”

“My career is my girlfriend.”

“Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.”

“I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.”

“Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.”

“Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.”

“The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.”

Source : "Adrianne Palicki: I fell in love with the script … and the costumes!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. September 20, 2010.

“My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.”