"I was intrigued and dazzled and humbled and intimidated until I was 51. That was the first time I ever performed as an openly gay man onstage through the courage that his lyrics gave me."
"Our hands are occasionally guided in some of the things that we do...you want to use the word divine guidance behind it." - John Williams
"It's not a jazz record. It's not a theater record. It's our record and it's very emblematic of the music that we enjoy listening to and the music that we enjoy creating together."
"You have to match it a lot with great precision in some places because in this film, quite a few times, the video will cut to Mozart's hands at a piano."
"When you and I have to exist in the art, entertainment, artistic world, I know I need to choose gratitude when the pendulum swings at the end of the day - even in these hard situations."
"It goes back to that whole thing of find a balance between all of those things, you know, allowing yourself to be in the moment and allowing yourself to be free to respond to things that you may not have thought of."
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"This is a great moment to show all the different ways that they did stand up and put in their effort toward finding peace and bringing the soldiers home safely."
"There's something so powerful about this understatement and intimacy and kind of allowing people to feel all the different facets. It doesn't have to be something obvious, it can be something that's a little bit intriguing."
"This isn’t just a concert. This is a fully-staged 'experience.' It is a way to approach the storytelling that I have never experienced in opera."