Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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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.
Stephen Sondheim
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Author Details:
Type:
Composer Quotes
Category:
American Composer Quotes
Date of Birth:
March 22, 1930
Nationality:
American
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Related Authors:
Leonard Bernstein
John Cage
Oscar Levant
Carter Burwell
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John Zorn
George Crumb
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Select Stephen Sondheim Quotations:
Nice is different than good.
Stephen Sondheim
Gotta watch out for directors.
Stephen Sondheim
Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
Stephen Sondheim
I would have been a geologist.
Stephen Sondheim
So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
Stephen Sondheim
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.
Stephen Sondheim
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim
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All Stephen Sondheim Quotations:
A close-up on screen can...
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs...
All the best performers bring to...
Art, in itself, is an attempt...
By the time I was 22...
Every writer I've ever spoken to...
Everyone I used to play with...
Generally, the best recording is the...
Gotta watch out for directors.
I chose and my world was...
I don't listen to recordings of...
I fell into lyric writing because...
I firmly believe lyrics have to...
I played the organ when I...
I prefer neurotic people. I like...
I really don't want to write...
I was raised to be charming...
I would have been a geologist.
If people have split views about...
If you're dealing with a musical...
In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation...
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's...
Math and music are intimately related...
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Musicals are plays, but the last...
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic...
My mother wanted me off her...
My personal life and my artistic...
Nice is different than good.
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers...
One difference between poetry and lyrics...
One of the hardest things about...
Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father...
So many good songs get written...
The dumbing down of the country...
The fact is popular art dates...
The more restrictions you have, the...
The movie adaptations of stage musicals...
The nice thing about doing a...
The worst thing you can do...
There's something inimical about the camera...
When I was growing up, there...
When the audience comes in, it...
When you know your cast well...
You can't have personal investors anymore...
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