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What I love about piano and vocal is it's incredibly pure, and it gets down to the essence of the song because you're not distracted by an orchestra. When it's just a piano and a voice, it's about the purity of singing the song.

~Brian Stokes Mitchell

Topics: About Because Distracted Down Essence Gets Incredibly Just Love Orchestra Piano Pure Purity Singing Song Vocal Voice You I Love

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When I was preparing 'Kiss Me, Kate,' I did go to the Museum of Broadcasting and watched an old kinescope of Alfred Drake doing the role on a television special. It was interesting, but I didn't feel any need to try to copy him.

~Brian Stokes Mitchell

Topics: Any Broadcasting Copy Did Doing Drake Feel Go Him Interesting Kate Kiss Me Museum Need Old Preparing Role Special Television Try Watched

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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.

~Brian Stokes Mitchell

Topics: After Audience Before Call Character Comfortable Discover Feel Him Learn Months Performance Performing Person Played Several Three Until

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Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

~Brian Stokes Mitchell

Topics: Artists Enjoyable Lives Make Our Our Lives

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The first role that I played as a musical - I was 14 years old, and I played Birdie in 'Bye Bye Birdie.' That was an awakening of, 'Wow, I'm good at that. People are responding.' And I hardly knew what I was doing back then, but there was something that people were seeing.

~Brian Stokes Mitchell

Topics: Awakening Back Bye Doing First Good Hardly Knew Musical Old People Played Responding Role Seeing Something Then Were Wow Years

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Astaire was ballroom, basically, and Gene Kelly had such athleticism - that's always what I responded to and what just blew my head open when I watched Gene Kelly's numbers. But, Fred Astaire was just so incredibly inventive and so, so smooth - so smooth.

~Brian Stokes Mitchell

Topics: Always Astaire Ballroom Basically Blew Fred Fred Astaire Gene Had Head Incredibly Inventive Just Kelly Numbers Open Smooth Watched

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Honestly, I hate watching myself on TV - I have always hated watching myself and listening to myself.

~Brian Stokes Mitchell

Topics: Always Hate Hated Honestly Listening Myself Tv Watching

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

~Brian Stokes Mitchell

Topics: Always Been Fan Huge Huge Fan

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

~Brian Stokes Mitchell

Topics: Disservice Does Great Language Out Take Ugly

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'Ragtime' is about how we get through ugliness, how we talk together, work together, get through it together.

~Brian Stokes Mitchell

Topics: About Get How Talk Through Together Ugliness Work Work Together

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: October 31st, 1957

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