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My cage has many rooms.

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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
Author
Composer
Dramaturge
Librettist
Lyricist
Musician
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
Cage
Cages
Rooms
Many

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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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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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I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
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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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Gotta watch out for directors.
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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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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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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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You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.
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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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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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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.
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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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The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
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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've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.
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If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
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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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