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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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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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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an and when you're back to or makes the or mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.
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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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A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.
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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
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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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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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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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It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
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I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
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When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.
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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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I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
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The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
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