Stephen Sondheim Quotes

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

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• I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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  • Me
  • Writer

• I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

  

  Usher
  • Music
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  • Idea

• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Song
  • Drama

• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Fantasy

• Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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  • Guitar

• I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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  • Journey
  • End

• I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

  

  Ed Sheeran
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  • Hip Hop

• 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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  • Beautiful

• I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.

  

  Ed Sheeran
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• I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
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  • Popular

• I have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
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• If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
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• One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.

  

  Jackie Tabick
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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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  • Artist

• I think the way we react to things is a big indicator of our character and what type of person we are.

  

  Zendaya
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• To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.

  

  Karen Robards
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  • Attention
  • Books

• I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
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  • Always
  • Afraid

• I've only ever written two or three song parts in my life ... Er, no, actually I wrote the entire Slang album, but the band will never admit to that! I don't mind carrying those deadweights - at least they're decent company. I wish I'd written 'Happy Birthday', just for the royalties.

  

  Rick Allen Def Leppard
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  • My Life
  • Company

• The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • May
  • Soul
  • Humanity

• I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious reasons: because they were people who were basically oriented in the direction of the established method of not confronting the power structure, but trying to elicit concessions by various and sundry means of, well, let's call it accommodating leadership.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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  • Hearts
  • Woven

• I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
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