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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.
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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Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake On, then, with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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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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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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It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.
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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
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I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
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Just remember, Someone is on your side (our side) Someone else is not While we're seeing our side Maybe we forgot: they are not alone. No one is alone.
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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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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
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Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.
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Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.
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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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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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