100 Quotes by Brian Stokes Mitchell

When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

Variety is the key to not being bored.

Usually, I don't feel comfortable with a character until I've played him before an audience for several performances. It is not until after three months of performing that I learn to discover what I call 'all the nooks and crannies' of the person.

To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.

I love rethinking and reimagining songs.

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.

I'd always been a huge fan of Stephen Schwartz.

I have been fortunate in my career to play a lot of lead roles. The downside to that is I don't have a life outside of the show. I go on lockdown even with my wife if the show is really difficult and I am having vocal problems.