Alan Menken
Alan Menken (born 22 July 1949) is a composer and conductor for movies and musicals, usually working with Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, and Stephen Schwartz.
Quotes
- Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing great, hard work — it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.
- Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to land musically dramatic work.