Cabaret Quotes

• Life is a cabaret, old chum! Come to the Cabaret.

  Fred Ebb

  Life Is, Sitting Alone, Chum

  "Cabaret" (song) (1966)

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• What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret.

  Fred Ebb

  Play, Sitting, Rooms

  "Cabaret" (song) (1966)

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• Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

  Julia Barr

  Musical, Roles, Broadway

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• Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

  John Lithgow

  Looks, Stories, West

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• I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

  Rita Coolidge

  Thinking, Singers, Written

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

  Julie Klausner

  Format

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• A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.

  James Fenton

  Song, Voice, Giving

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• Life isn't a cabaret. It's a dive bar.

  Woody Paige

  Funny Life, Bars

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• A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism

  Alexander Polinsky

  Emotional, Impressionism, One Woman

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• I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

  Elton John

  Depressing, Thinking, Musician

  "Elton John: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Paul Gambaccini, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 1973.

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• To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining 'cause she doesn't want to go to sleep. They're at their most enchanting 'cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, "Please don't let this end."

  Bill Nighy

  Daughter, Sleep, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• It's fun! Just fun...I don't think of it as a cabaret act per se, I call it more of a gig, if that makes any sense

  Frances Ruffelle

  Fun, Thinking, Gigs

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• Méret Oppenheim was a very erotic woman. She also liked provocation, and if you could provoke surrealists at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, or similar Dadaist hangouts in Basel, where you could normally get away with these things, you were truly a provocateur.

  Rebecca Horn

  Get Away, Provoking, Surrealist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

  Laura Lippman

  Female, Singers, Taste

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

  Faith Prince

  Fun, Character, Thinking

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• I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

  Paloma Faith

  Girl, Vegas, Inspired

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• If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.

  Alan Cumming

  Song, Artist, Impact

  "Cumming around again". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

  Annaleigh Ashford

  Years, Listening, Singing

  "Annaleigh Ashford Takes ‘Lost In The Stars,’ Her Glitzy Solo Cabaret, On The Road". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2015.

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• A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Laughter, Church, Sanctuary

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• I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'

  Christian Louboutin

  Deep Love, Feet, Berlin

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• In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Dancer, Tables, Globalization

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• I've actually found - especially doing my cabaret show - I'm connecting with people in a way I haven't connected with them. I've found that when you're open and honest, people respond to that, whatever you're being open and honest about. You could then, when you lay that as the groundwork, say, "Here I am. This is what I think. I come in peace." Then you're able to push out, to be able to talk about more things. And that's been a really heartening thing about my life, actually.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, People, Honest

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Improvisation in general is good, and improvising material into themes, turning the material into something codified and repeatable, taught me scenic structure and dramatic gambits that work and things that are appealing both as a performer and an audience member, like you know, what does "want" really mean in a scene, and how do you achieve your want, and how is that expressed, and how do you achieve closure? Those are all things that I learned performing at the cabaret after just doing the same scenes over and over and over again over the years, with my own ability to change.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mean, Closure, Dramatic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always wanted to play Roxie Hart in Chicago and also Sally Bowles in Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, but I have a feeling I won't now! I've also always wanted to play Maria in The Sound of Music, but don't suppose I'll ever do that either!

  Marti Webb

  Play, Feelings, Sound

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• I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Hate, People, Selling

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