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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

Stephen Sondheim

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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
Author
Composer
Dramaturge
Librettist
Lyricist
Musician
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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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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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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White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
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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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