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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
Author
Composer
Dramaturge
Librettist
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Musician
Poet
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Songwriter
New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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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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Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
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It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.
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They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.
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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!
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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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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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My cage has many rooms.
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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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You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
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Only capitalists get photographers.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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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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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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