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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.

Stephen Sondheim

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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Composer
Dramaturge
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Musician
Poet
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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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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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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Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake On, then, with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back.
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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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Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.
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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
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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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If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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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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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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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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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
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I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.
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