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If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.
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Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player. That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player. How can you tell? It's PIPING hot! Then blow on it first!
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There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
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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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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.
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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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Art is craft, not inspiration.
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With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.
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Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake On, then, with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back.
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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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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
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I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
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It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.
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For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
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Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!
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My main goal is to tell a story.
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