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Alan Menken
Alan Menken
American Musician
Born: Jul 22, 1949
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Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. Alan Menken
Other Benefiting Collaboration Way Open Ideas Being Perspectives Each
I see my songs and shows almost like a mosaic - part of a bigger picture. Alan Menken
Picture See Songs Part Almost Mosaic Like Bigger Bigger Picture Shows
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
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I can't get into the underlying psyche of someone like Robin Williams, but he was at that level of fame where he was somewhat self-protective. Alan Menken
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I have a team who I respect immensely, so if they have opinions, I'm interested in hearing them. Alan Menken
Respect Immensely Opinions Hearing Interested Them Team Who
When I was younger, I'd get very invested in things. It's a hard lesson to learn, but you have to know that if you want to find gold, you've got to love the process of digging. Alan Menken
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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
Time Kid Ways Member Out Composer Networking Writers Stems Since Always Where Influences Communicating Really Many Workshop
As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock stars: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan. Alan Menken
Music Me Beatles Stars Kid Composers Classical Classical Music Like Rock Real Rock Stars Were Beethoven Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Loved Dylan Bob Bob Dylan Then
My first success was 'Little Shop of Horrors,' and I had been working for years on jingles. Alan Menken
Success First Jingles Horrors Had Been Years Shop Little Working
I always wanted to have a villain song for Hades in 'Hercules,' but I couldn't figure out how we would have Hades sing. Alan Menken
Song Out Would Sing Always How Wanted Figure Villain Hercules
I always felt great about what I wrote for 'Newsies,' but 'Newsies' was a total flop. Alan Menken
Great Total About Wrote Felt Always Flop
A villain number is a very valuable thing to have, but if you look at most musicals, one way or another there's an antagonist number. Alan Menken
You Valuable Way Valuable Thing Musicals One-Way Look Most Another Antagonist Very Villain Thing Number
Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room. Alan Menken
Big Collaborator Easy Find Composing Idea Like Room Right
If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences. Alan Menken
You Yourself Writing Own Always Artist Experiences Your Pulling
I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well... who actually becomes a composer?' Alan Menken
Thought Composer Well Sort Because Becomes Always Just Wanted Who NYU Actually
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
You Half Projects Because Always Least Lot Get Move Move Forward Order Forward Things
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
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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
Time Long Long Time Favorite Favorite Part Part New Said New Place New Thing Where Place Creating Thing Career Pulling
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
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Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work - it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own. Alan Menken
Work Hard Work Great Own Other Collaboration Easier Constantly About Piece Also Doing Than Improve Rewriting Really Your Hard Helping Each
You're creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want all the songs to push story forward. That's the same whether it's for stage or film or television or whatever. Alan Menken
You Whatever Stage Dramatic Television Logic Arc Emotional Push Songs Score Same Want Story Whether Creating Forward Film
A lot of what I've done has a rock edge, even going back to 'Little Shop of Horrors.' Alan Menken
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Of my Disney material, 'Tangled' is my most pop-oriented. Alan Menken
Most Material Tangled Disney
The reality is that people need to be coaxed toward a musical. They need to understand why it's a musical. Alan Menken
Reality People Musical Toward Understand Why Need
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
People Will Immediately Musicals Something Attach Feel Most Concept Make Than Bigger Themselves Successful Connected Need
Every time I play 'Part of Your World,' a whole part of my life comes back to me. It's just inescapable - it was an innocent time, and a sense of discovery that we were all involved with. Alan Menken
Life Time Me World Innocent My Life Sense Every Every Time Back Part Involved Inescapable Were Discovery Just Your Whole Play
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