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I have the ability to clear the decks and focus on what's happening in the moment. And I get to spend my life doing what I love to do.
~ Alan Menken
Ability
Clear
Deck
Doing
Focus
Get
Happening
I Love
Life
Love
Moment
My Life
Spend
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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.
~ Alan Menken
Enjoyed
Fun
Gospel
Hercules
I Love
Lot
Love
Opened
Producing
Really
Song
Thought
Truth
Up
Writing
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I see my songs and shows almost like a mosaic - part of a bigger picture.
~ Alan Menken
Almost
Bigger
Bigger Picture
I See
Like
Mosaic
Part
Picture
See
Shows
Songs
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I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the simplicity and innocence. That's in the look of it, and that's in the sound of it.
~ Alan Menken
After
Back
Come
I Think
Innocence
Little
Look
Mermaid
Simplicity
Sound
Strikes
Thing
Think
Years
You
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I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from. So many writers and influences and ways of communicating all sprang out of the time I was a member of that workshop.
~ Alan Menken
Always
Communicating
Composer
Influences
Kid
Many
Member
Networking
Out
Really
Since
Stems
Time
Ways
Where
Workshop
Writers
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I was always proud of the score to 'Newsies.' The movie is good, but it was under-budgeted.
~ Alan Menken
Always
Good
Movie
Proud
Score
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I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There's a lot of architecture in our songs.
~ Alan Menken
Architecture
Character
Context
Dramatic
Lot
Meaning
Our
Songs
Story
Work
Write
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I'll always work with my collaborator in the room so I have a reaction on a note-by-note basis. I know in my gut when something works for me, and I'll fight for it, but I'm a very easy re-writer.
~ Alan Menken
Always
Basis
Collaborator
Easy
Fight
Gut
Know
Me
Reaction
Room
Something
Very
Work
Works
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I'm a very style-driven composer, and I like to give every project its own unique stamp.
~ Alan Menken
Composer
Every
Give
Like
Own
Project
Stamp
Unique
Very
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I'm an architect. Before you start pouring the concrete, you build a foundation that is solid so that when you take the scaffolding down, it holds - forever. So that when junior high schools are doing 'Hunchback,' a 12-year-old as Frollo still works on some level.
~ Alan Menken
Architect
Before
Build
Concrete
Doing
Down
Forever
Foundation
High
High Schools
Holds
Junior
Junior High
Level
Pouring
Schools
Solid
Some
Start
Still
Take
Works
You
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I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.
~ Alan Menken
Being
Else
Interested
Not Interested
Producer
Somebody
Song
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I'm not intimidated by embracing a familiar form and what's familiar about it and making it my own. It is, I think, one of my gifts.
~ Alan Menken
About
Embracing
Familiar
Form
Gifts
I Think
Intimidated
Making
My Own
Own
Think
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I'm very proud of 'Will the Sun Ever Shine Again.' That was a song written very close to the 9/11 event.
~ Alan Menken
Again
Close
Event
Ever
Proud
Shine
Song
Sun
Very
Will
Written
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I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.
~ Alan Menken
Always
Because
Forward
Get
Half
Least
Lot
Move
Move Forward
Order
Projects
Things
You
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I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.
~ Alan Menken
Been
Composer
Fortunate
Forward
Involved
Projects
Proud
Really
Scores
Very
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I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.
~ Alan Menken
Career
Creating
Favorite
Favorite Part
Long
Long Time
New
New Place
New Thing
Part
Place
Pulling
Said
Thing
Time
Where
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If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.
~ Alan Menken
Always
Artist
Experiences
Own
Pulling
Writing
You
Your
Yourself
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In animation, the directors are part of a huge team of animators who all have opinions, too. It's a much more democratic process. Also, the animation executives oversee things more.
~ Alan Menken
Also
Animation
Animators
Democratic
Democratic Process
Directors
Executives
Huge
More
Much
Opinions
Oversee
Part
Process
Team
Things
Too
Who
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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.
~ Alan Menken
Also
Always
Arrangements
Becomes
Broader
Casting
Dealing
Diverse
Figuring
Forward
Just
Out
Platform
Process
Pushing
Song
Songs
Songwriting
Story
Structure
Telling
Than
Voices
Within
Writing
Writing Process
You
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Live-action films are very much a director's medium, and that director is going to be a very strong voice, a stronger individual voice than you'd have in animation.
~ Alan Menken
Animation
Director
Films
Going
Individual
Medium
Much
Strong
Stronger
Than
Very
Voice
You
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