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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.
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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
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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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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'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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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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Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.
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A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.
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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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Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.
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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.
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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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