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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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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
Author
Composer
Dramaturge
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Lyricist
Musician
Poet
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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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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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.
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I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
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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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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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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
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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.
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I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
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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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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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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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TODD: The history of the world, my love -- LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors! TODD: Is those below serving those up above! LOVETT: Ev'rybody shaves, So there should be plenty of flavors! TODD: How gratifying for once to know BOTH: That those above will serve those down below!
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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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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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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
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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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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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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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