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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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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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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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By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.
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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
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For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
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Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
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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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Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.
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That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.
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With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.
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