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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.
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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It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.
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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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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
Stephen Sondheim
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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Art is craft, not inspiration.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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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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Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.
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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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My main goal is to tell a story.
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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
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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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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
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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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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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