Richard Kind
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He's a guy who always liked actors better than singers, but he loved when he heard his songs sung beautifully.
But during a show, he wanted it acted better.
He would always check in.
Are you having fun?
Does this sound good?
He wrote for the actor and yet was so specific.
If I put a the instead of an an in the lyric, he would correct me.
Hanging on my wall in my house, one of my most treasured things is just typed out lyrics, you know, maybe three, four lines in the song.
And he would then cross it out and put it in pencil because he famously wrote in pencil the changes.
And he was diligent on every comma, every word.
He really worked hard.
This is sort of funny.
The first time I met him, I went up to him.
It was at Hal's Christmas party, Hal Prince's Christmas party.
I went up to him and I said, do you know who I am?
And I go, do you know who I am?
He said, yes, you're Richard Kind and the beard goes.