Words matter. These are the best Michael Feinstein Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Certainly the most requested song in performance is ‘Love is Here to Stay,’ and that is a favorite for me.
For me, there is no point in doing a duet unless it is organic or there is an emotional thru line.
Activism is a very admirable way to create change, but it has to go hand in hand with personal contact with the people with whom we have opposing points of view; without that, there will never be any movement.
Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.
My entire career proves to me that if you believe in what you’re doing, you will reap the benefits.
I’m very mindful of trying to do something good in the world. When I see injustice in the world, it’s very hard for me.
The arts are tremendously powerful in bringing people with opposing views together.
I started out as a pianist and singer in gay and piano bars – they were the only places I could get a job singing show tunes.
I just didn’t like the word ‘gay.’ I still don’t like it. It’s a dumb way of describing sexuality. I like ‘queer’ or other words, but ‘gay’ is a word that had a completely different-meaning word and has been reappropriated. I just don’t like it.
I always try to get back to the original source of the song. It’s not always there in the sheet music, which is sometimes just a sketchy blueprint of what the song is about.
I’ve had a couple of times where things were so extraordinary wonderful that it changed my world. One of them was when I met Ira Gershwin and started working with him. That was a game-changer for me. It changed the entire course and direction of my life.
I’ve always found that the most powerful way to create change is to be myself and not be afraid to express who I am.
Most of the musicals I go to I simply don’t enjoy, so I don’t go to them unless a number of people I trust say I have to.
When Sondheim was visiting the Library of Congress, where the manuscript of ‘Porgy and Bess’ is housed, he was so overcome with emotion while holding the score in his hands that he shed a tear. He shed several tears, but one of the tears actually fell onto the original manuscript. And he was horrified.
