I think I learned more about writing scores for Broadway by making mix tapes in the '90s than I did in college. You're learning about rise and fall and energy and tempo shifts. You're showing off your taste and your references. You're trying to be witty by - through placement of music you didn't write.
With every word, I drop knowledge. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
With every word, I drop knowledge.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.
If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.
I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
The people you're turning to for advice are all people making Disney movies, so we had these amazing meetings where you'd see John Lasseter, and then… - Lin-Manuel Miranda
The people you're turning to for advice are all people making Disney movies, so we had these amazing meetings where you'd see John Lasseter, and then…
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.
I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the t… - Lin-Manuel Miranda
I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the t…
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