Words matter. These are the best Tom Kitt Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s all about the audience and the people who support your work and respond to it. So, anytime I hear that ‘Next to Normal’ is affecting people, it goes beyond my wildest dreams of what I set out to do when I started to write ‘Next to Normal.’
Green Day is a band that you always felt had something to say, whether it was about the times or love or heartache.
My love of Green Day is on so many levels. It’s their genius for songwriting, the fact that they write about very important subjects, both personal and political, and they’re just a timeless band.
I hope Green Day write more for the theater. They’re brilliant at it.
‘American Idiot’ is not only one of my favorite albums of all time, it’s become an anthem of a generation.
I’ve had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of the things that makes me want to be a writer is to pour my heart into something and hope that I can affect someone in that same way.
I didn’t want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don’t want it.
One of the arrangements I’m really proud of is ’21 Guns’ because the chorus has this descending bass line with a suspended type of progression that immediately screamed ‘Bach’ to me.
‘Cabaret’ was one of the first pieces of musical theater I saw that showed the possibilities of what musical theater can do.
I was very lucky in that I had a happy home life and that I was interested in things my parents wanted to provide for me.
I don’t think you are ever really done working on something, especially if you can get back into rehearsal.
Any musical is a major undertaking.
There’s no better feeling as a writer than to see your piece going beyond what you can have ever imagined. And a wonderful way for that to happen is for new audiences to discover it.
I was meant to be a composer. I was meant to meet my wife and have our three children. There were a number of factors that led to all of that happening, which, if you mapped it out, you would say, ‘God, a lot had to go right for all of those things to line up.’
