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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.
Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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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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Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.
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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
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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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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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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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Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.
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It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.
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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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Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.
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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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The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?
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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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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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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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The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
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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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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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Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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