People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don’t comply strictly with musical theater phrasing. Musical theater tends to be very one and three, and jazz is definitely two and four. Brian Stokes Mitchell Read Quote
Music is liquid. It’s meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think. Brian Stokes Mitchell Read Quote
I’d been playing the piano since I was 6 and wanted to be a composer, but I also wanted to be an actor. I decided to just pursue both and see which won out. Brian Stokes Mitchell Read Quote
I hate those vacuous musicals, the happy-happy, ‘Let’s have a good time’ shows. Brian Stokes Mitchell Read Quote
Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don’t mix. Ultimately, it doesn’t do you any good. Brian Stokes Mitchell Read Quote
My favorite music is jazz, actually. It’s what I listen to, it’s what I was raised on, and it’s what I prefer to sing. Brian Stokes Mitchell Read Quote
That’s the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think. Brian Stokes Mitchell Read Quote
