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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
Skies
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Small
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Bigs
Fall
Moments
May
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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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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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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
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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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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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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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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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After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
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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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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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You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
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My cage has many rooms.
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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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It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
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