Patti LuPone

Musician

1949-04-21

Quotes by Patti LuPone

• A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

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• The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.

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• New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.

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• Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.

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• I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

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• I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.

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• My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.

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• A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

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• I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

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• What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.

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