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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.
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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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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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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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
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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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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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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?
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Into the woods--you have to grope, But that's the way you learn to cope. Into the woods to find there's hope Of getting through the journey.
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I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
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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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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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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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I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.
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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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Gotta watch out for directors.
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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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