Laura Benanti Quotes on Music (2 Quotes)

Also a songwriter (and guitarist), she's working on a solo CD. It's kind of up in the air, ... I'm having a hard time I want to make it special. Musical theatre is my first love. My writing is sort of folk-rock. I get compared to Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell though I'm not nearly as talented as either. Neither a straight-pop album nor a musical-theatre album seems the way to go. I want to take my music and orchestrate it in a kind of old fashioned style, and take some standards and 'popularize' them do a true crossover. I'm working on it.

I hate to sound like a Pollyanna, ... but in a way the ordeal was kind of a blessing. It puts things in perspective. You learn who your friends are you realize the importance of family. I was 18 when I did Sound of Music . My life started to get very linear I started to get tunnel vision. The injury opened my eyes as to how I wanted to be as a human being.