I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.
Stephen Sondheim

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

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.
Stephen Sondheim