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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.
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Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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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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White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
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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 chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not. You have to move on.
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My main goal is to tell a story.
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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.
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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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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
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The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
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A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.
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The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
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They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.
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Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.
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With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.
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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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