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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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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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Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.
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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not. You have to move on.
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I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
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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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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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Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.
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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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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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My cage has many rooms.
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I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
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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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Only capitalists get photographers.
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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
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I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.
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Just remember, Someone is on your side (our side) Someone else is not While we're seeing our side Maybe we forgot: they are not alone. No one is alone.
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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.
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