Stephen Sondheim Quotes

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

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• When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Stage
  • Ego

• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Stage

• When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Stage
  • Top
  • Over

• The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

  

  Ma Jian
  • World
  • Stage
  • China

• We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Differences
  • Point
  • Accept

• I'm always up for going back to the stage.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Back

• The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Stage
  • Laws
  • Both

• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Friends
  • Opinion
  • Differences

• I've been on stage since I was eight.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Stage
  • Been
  • Since

• I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Mind
  • Stage
  • Naked

• I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Feel
  • Audience
  • Stage

• I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Look

• If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Bad
  • You
  • Differences

• I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Nice
  • Band
  • Travel

• It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Thought
  • Speak
  • Stage

• The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Hard
  • Stage

• And understand: class differences will not save you.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Understand
  • Differences

• It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Funny
  • Stage
  • Dumb

• Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Race

• Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.

  

  will.i.am
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Moving

• We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Europe
  • Bars
  • Stripes

• Rock this party Dance everybody Make it hot in this party Don't stop, move your body Rock this party Dance everybody Make it hot in this party Everybody dance now

  

  Christophe Le Friant
  • Party
  • Dance
  • Don't Stop

• One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
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