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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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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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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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That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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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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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.
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With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.
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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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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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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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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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If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
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You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
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Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.
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Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an and when you're back to or makes the or mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
Stephen Sondheim
My cage has many rooms.
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What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.
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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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