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Stephen Sondheim Quotes
A close-up on screen can say all a song can. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. Thats what makes theatre live. Thats why it persists. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Every writer Ive ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because thats the way the piece grew: integrally, with them. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Gotta watch out for directors. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I dont listen to recordings of my songs. I dont avoid it, I just dont go out of my way to do it. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audiences ear a chance to understand whats going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. Ive always been a gadget man. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I really dont want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I was raised to be charming, not sincere. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I would have been a geologist. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
If people have split views about your work, I think its flattering. Id rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
If youre dealing with a musical in which youre trying to tell a story, its got to sound like speech. At the same time its got to be a song. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Lyrics have to be underwritten. Thats why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Musical comedies arent written, they are rewritten. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so youve got to wait til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audiences imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean theres no fourth wall. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. Its my mothers ambition to be a celebrity. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Nice is different than good. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on. - Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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