Stephen Sondheim Quotes

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

Stephen Sondheim Quotes
		I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra. Stephen Sondheim Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
		Author Details: Type: Composer Quotes Category: American Composer Quotes Date of Birth: March 22, 1930 Nationality: American Amazon: Stephen Sondheim on Amazon	Related Authors: Leonard Bernstein John Cage Oscar Levant Carter Burwell Carlisle Floyd Leo Ornstein John Zorn George Crumb
		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
Quote Keywords: Acting, Audience, Believe, Breathe, Chance, Costume, Ear, Firmly, Give, Going, Lyrics, Orchestra, Particularly, Story, Theater, Understand, Where	Dictionary Links: Acting, Audience, Believe, Breathe, Chance, Costume, Ear, Firmly, Give, Going, Orchestra, Particularly, Story, Theater, Understand, Where	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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