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
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Play
  • Best

• 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
  • Way
  • 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

• 'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Song
  • Years
  • Popular

• 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
  • Good
  • Song
  • 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
  • Song
  • Journey
  • End

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

  

  Ed Sheeran
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  • Day
  • Hip Hop

• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Happy
  • Culture
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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
  • Work
  • Music
  • 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
  • Song
  • Know
  • Famous

• 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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  • Song
  • 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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  • Growth
  • Down

• 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
  • Time
  • Great
  • Song

• 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
  • Life
  • Way
  • Favorite

• 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
  • People
  • Song
  • Artist

• It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

  

  Jill Scott
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• I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Morning

• I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.

  

  Simon Bird
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Comedy

• I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Myself

• In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Past

• 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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