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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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New York City
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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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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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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The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
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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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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
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I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.
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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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Art is craft, not inspiration.
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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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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 don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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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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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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Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.
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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.
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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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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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Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.
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