Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it. Robert Lopez Read Quote
It’s wonderful to be able to have such wildly different projects in your body of work. They don’t feel different to me as I’m working on them. It feels like they all share this element of subversiveness and finding the joy in subversiveness. Robert Lopez Read Quote
On Broadway, there is no censoring, just self-censorship and doing what makes sense. Robert Lopez Read Quote
I’m not an advocate of true rhymes, I don’t think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do true rhymes, because that’s the tradition of it, but I do think that in order for the art form to grow, it’s important to not let tradition get in the way of innovation. Robert Lopez Read Quote
It’s so important, after a song is finished, to go to sleep and listen to the song with fresh ears the next day. It’s sometimes a traumatic event. And playing it for someone else for the first time – that is the most nerve-wracking thing of all. But we learn so much. Robert Lopez Read Quote
This is one of my lesser moments, and one I’m not proud to admit to, but there’s always a time I feel the need to have control over the process and try to defend the song from the person I’m writing with. It never, ever helps and always causes problems. Robert Lopez Read Quote
