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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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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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It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.
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You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
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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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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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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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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.
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I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.
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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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Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.
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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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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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