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Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Quotes (110)

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If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.
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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
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I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!
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Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.
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It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.
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The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.
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You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
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Into the woods--you have to grope, But that's the way you learn to cope. Into the woods to find there's hope Of getting through the journey.
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Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
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Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.
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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
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I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?
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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.
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I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.
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