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It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page. - Jason Robert Brown
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What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic. - Jason Robert Brown
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I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them. What I do is very different. - Jason Robert Brown
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My work is very popular with performers, and there are theatre people who get what I'm doing and what tradition I'm working in. I'm very grateful to them - they're my people, who understand why I work the way I do. - Jason Robert Brown
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I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician. - Jason Robert Brown
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I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life. - Jason Robert Brown
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When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing. - Jason Robert Brown
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As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me. - Jason Robert Brown
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You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it? - Jason Robert Brown
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What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them. - Jason Robert Brown
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There are actors I have very strong chemical responses to, and I strive always to figure out ways to work with them and get them to sing my stuff. - Jason Robert Brown
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Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do. - Jason Robert Brown
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In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss. - Jason Robert Brown
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Personally, I've never been popular, so I'm not surprised that professionally I'm a bit out of step, too. - Jason Robert Brown
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I don't want costumes and makeup between me and the audience - I want more direct communication. There's something for me about being honest on stage, and I'm at my most honest when I'm behind a piano. So I prefer my concert performances. - Jason Robert Brown
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