“Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.” - Edgar Allan Poe

“Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.” - Shannon L. Alder

The 1978 Grease film was based on the 1972 Broadway musical of the same name, which originally ran for 3,388 performances and has since been revived twice.