Stephen Sondheim Quotes

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

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  Hal Sparks
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• I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
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• You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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• There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

  

  Beck
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• I actually love doing comedy!

  

  Felicity Jones
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• As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

  

  Ralph Merkle
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• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
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• Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

  

  Young Thug
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• I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Want
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  • Independent

• I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Why
  • Words
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• One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Friends
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• The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
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• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Song
  • You
  • Band

• I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Fun
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• The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

  

  Adam Michnik
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• 'iRun' is just a fun turn-up song, me and Yachty.

  

  Rakim Hasheem Allen
  • Up
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• We will never privatise the National Health Service.

  

  Andrew Lansley
  • Health
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• Let me tell you 'bout a place a omewhere up a New York way, where the people are so gay, twistin' the night away...Here they have a lot of fun, puttin' trouble on the run. Man, you find the old and young, twistin' the night away. They're twistin', twistin' everybody's feelin' great. They're twistin', twistin', they're twistin' the night away.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • People
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  • Place

• As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • God
  • Peace

• Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Priority
  • Office
  • Priorities

• After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Song
  • Comedy
  • Revolution