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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

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
Charming
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Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.
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On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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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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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not. You have to move on.
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Just remember, Someone is on your side (our side) Someone else is not While we're seeing our side Maybe we forgot: they are not alone. No one is alone.
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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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The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.
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If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.
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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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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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You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.
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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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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 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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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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It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
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