After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
Stephen Sondheim

I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.
Trey Anastasio

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.
Shirley Jones

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
Stephen Sondheim

It's kind of hard to get deep with Rodgers and Hammerstein. I can't think of a moral in the music - it's just fun.
Jeff Long

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
Stephen Sondheim

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
Art Garfunkel

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
Bernadette Peters