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Most of my collaborations, certainly post - Howard Ashman but even with Howard, are music first.
~ Alan Menken
Certainly
Collaborations
Even
First
Most
Music
Post
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Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.
~ Alan Menken
Attach
Bigger
Concept
Connected
Feel
Immediately
Make
Most
Musicals
Need
People
Something
Successful
Than
Themselves
Will
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Most things that I write are in very specific forms. A score will have a shape and profile, and then the more emotional and intimate moments will come.
~ Alan Menken
Come
Emotional
Forms
I Write
Intimate
Moments
More
Most
Profile
Score
Shape
Specific
Then
Things
Very
Will
Write
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Movies, there are moments when you're writing a song or demoing, a moment in the recording studio. Musicals much more just eat up your life for a certain period of time.
~ Alan Menken
Certain
Eat
Just
Life
Moment
Moments
More
Movies
Much
Musicals
Period
Recording
Recording Studio
Song
Studio
Time
Up
Writing
You
Your
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Movies, you can insulate yourself more from audience, to a degree, and just look at box office. In theater, the audience is a very dynamic part of your process, and you feel much more exposed.
~ Alan Menken
Audience
Box
Degree
Dynamic
Exposed
Feel
Just
Look
More
Movies
Much
Office
Part
Process
Theater
Very
You
Your
Yourself
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Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
~ Alan Menken
Funny
Music
Unless
Witty
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Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.
~ Alan Menken
Association
Few
Force
Hear
Life
Music
Notes
Songs
Specific
Take
Them
Vocabulary
World
You
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My favorite experience, in general, probably was the 'Little Shop' experience, which probably was terrifying, frustrating, and exhilarating and amazing, but because it was the first, that was the one where I watched the show just launch itself for the first time and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going to have a career.'
~ Alan Menken
Amazing
Because
Career
Exhilarating
Experience
Favorite
First
First Time
Frustrating
General
God
Going
Itself
Just
Launch
Little
Oh
Oh My God
Shop
Show
Terrifying
Thought
Time
Watched
Where
Which
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My favorite thing is a brand-new project from scratch because you really never know how they're going to come to life. Going back for the third and fourth time to old ones is very gratifying, but it's not my favorite use of my creativity.
~ Alan Menken
Back
Because
Come
Creativity
Favorite
Favorite Thing
Fourth
Going
Gratifying
How
Know
Life
Never
Old
Old Ones
Project
Really
Scratch
Thing
Third
Time
Use
Very
You
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My first success was 'Little Shop of Horrors,' and I had been working for years on jingles.
~ Alan Menken
Been
First
Had
Horrors
Little
Shop
Success
Working
Years
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Of my Disney material, 'Tangled' is my most pop-oriented.
~ Alan Menken
Disney
Material
Most
Tangled
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Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.
~ Alan Menken
Best
Best Work
Direction
Fight
Go
Me
Normally
Often
Somebody
Something
Stretch
Trying
Want
Work
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Part of the job is knowing how to use this medium in the most effective way for the story you're telling, so for me, to pick a genre I want to do is a little harder. I would say it's more about thinking, 'What genre will work for what kind of story?' And then, when all of that comes, I embrace it and run with it.
~ Alan Menken
About
Effective
Effective Way
Embrace
Genre
Harder
How
Job
Kind
Knowing
Little
Me
Medium
More
Most
Part
Pick
Run
Say
Story
Telling
Then
Thinking
Use
Want
Way
Will
Work
Would
You
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Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm and, I think, should elicit an emotion of happiness or of celebration or of sadness or of sorrow or of love or laughter, whatever.
~ Alan Menken
Celebration
Elicit
Emotion
Happiness
I Think
Infectious
Laughter
Love
Melody
Rhythm
Sadness
Should
Songs
Sorrow
Think
Whatever
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Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.
~ Alan Menken
Infectious
Melody
Rhythm
Should
Songs
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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
Act
Being
Child
Degree
Go
Involves
Letting
Letting Go
Much
Song
Very
Writing
Yourself
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The Disney tradition - number one, it's a great American classic tradition - and it's something where you don't want to go over certain lines. You want to poke fun, but you don't want to poke fun in a way that's hurtful.
~ Alan Menken
American
Certain
Classic
Disney
Fun
Go
Great
Great American
Hurtful
Lines
Number
Over
Poke
Something
Tradition
Want
Way
Where
You
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The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it.
~ Alan Menken
About
Film
Gig
Ignored
Job
No Question
Question
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You
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The reality is that people need to be coaxed toward a musical. They need to understand why it's a musical.
~ Alan Menken
Musical
Need
People
Reality
Toward
Understand
Why
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The things I tend to do best are the things that are the most overtly emotional, whether it's sentimental or whether it's celebratory or whether it's conflicted.
~ Alan Menken
Best
Emotional
Most
Sentimental
Tend
Things
Whether
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