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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
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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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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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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The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
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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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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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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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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
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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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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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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 have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.
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The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
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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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I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
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I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.
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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.
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