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Stephen Sondheim Quotes & Sayings

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46 entries tagged including 5 subtopics.
Last updated May 2023

Stephen Sondheim Topics

Art
Mankind
Understanding
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You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

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When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

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There's something inimical about the camera and song.

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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.

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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

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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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The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

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The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

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The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

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

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One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

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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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Nice is different than good.

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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

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Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

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