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I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.
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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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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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 liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.
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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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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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Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.
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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a 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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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
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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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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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