Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.
Stephen Sondheim
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When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.
La'Porsha Renae
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
Mac DeMarco
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
Xavier Dolan
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'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
Sampha
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
Bebe Rexha
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I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.
Yvonne Strahovski
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It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.
Yolanda Adams
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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
Cameron Crowe
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I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.
Fergie
The Black Eyed Peas
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Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'
Curtis Mayfield
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If I write a sad song, at the end it's gotta be like, 'Dude, things are looking up!'
Andy Grammer
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As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
Steve Martin
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I'm very cheap. My friends hate me.
Tyler James Williams
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You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.
David Miliband
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So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
Peter Agre
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I was about nine years old when I first heard Wu-Tang's 'C.R.E.A.M.' Before that, I didn't know anything about rap or hip-hop. I was just into Korean pop.
G-Dragon
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Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.
Stephen Sondheim
