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For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
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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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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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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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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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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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.
Stephen Sondheim
The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
Stephen Sondheim
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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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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It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.
Stephen Sondheim
I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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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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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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Only capitalists get photographers.
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My cage has many rooms.
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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
Stephen Sondheim
Art is craft, not inspiration.
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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.
Stephen Sondheim
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
Stephen Sondheim
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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