Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
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Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone
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For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
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Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
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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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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
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Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
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The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
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Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.
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Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
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Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?
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Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!
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Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.
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Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.
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Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.
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Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.
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Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.
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You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
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Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Others may decieve you - you decide what's good. You decide alone, but no one is alone. People make mistakes. Fathers, mothers, people make mistakes, holding to their own, thinking they're alone. Honor their mistakes. Fight for their mistakes. Witches can be right. Giants can be good. You decide what's right. You decide what's good.
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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.
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They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.