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Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

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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
Moments
May
Seize
Skies
Sky
Small
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Bigs
Fall

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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 was raised to be charming, not sincere.
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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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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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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
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Gotta watch out for directors.
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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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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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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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For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
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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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You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
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There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player. That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player. How can you tell? It's PIPING hot! Then blow on it first!
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They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.
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