Stephen Sondheim Quotes

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

Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim

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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

M. Ward
- Different
- Country
- Song
Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

Nadia Ali
- Writing
- Song
- Best
The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

Aaron Johnson
- Song
- Singing
- Everyone
It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

Halsey
- Writing
- Bad
- Song
To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

Barry Manilow
- People
- Song
- Write
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
- Music
- Believe