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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Composer
Dramaturge
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Musician
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Songwriter
New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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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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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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Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.
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Only capitalists get photographers.
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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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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
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The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
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Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.
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Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.
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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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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 don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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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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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
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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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With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.
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I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.
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