Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.

Stephen Sondheim

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• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Luck

• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • House
  • Violence

• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Guitar
  • Trees
  • Grandfather

• He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • May
  • Hope

• I listen to older music like AC/DC.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Music
  • Like
  • Listen

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Kind
  • Myself

• The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Fall

• I am a very big admirer of Hillary's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.

  

  Harriet Harman

• You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run - Tried to hide - Break on through to the other side!

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Night

• England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mistress, it was always an English girl: if he made her pregnant, she could be shipped back to England and he would not be held responsible. It never happened, but I've made a lot of work called The English Can Do No Wrong.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Work
  • Hope

• Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Heart

• When I first started working on 'Secret Diary,' I definitely felt like I needed to shape up. The idea of being in my knickers on TV was a great incentive! Now I try to eat right, and I go to Bikram yoga three or four times a week. I have my 'naughty' days, and I indulge in pizza and cake, but so what!

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Up
  • Great
  • Yoga

• We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

  

  Joe Scarborough
  • People
  • Stupid

• I've only ever done out-and-out serious roles. I've played, like, five serial killers.

  

  Andrew-Lee Potts
  • Done
  • Serious

• I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

  

  Bobby Sands
  • Freedom
  • Boy
  • Ghetto

• I'm so grateful to get that game over. I think the team would rather play Duke, Connecticut and Tennessee all back-to-back or in one week than Villanova. I took 600 milligrams of Motrin before the game and the headache is still coming through.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Team
  • Headache
  • Game Over

• If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

  

  Gary McCord
  • World
  • Different
  • Remember

• Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

  

  Francois Lelord
  • Feeling
  • Fall
  • Beginning

• Effort makes you. You will regret someday if you don’t do your best now. Don’t think it’s too late but keep working on it. It may take time, but there’s nothing that gets worse due to practising. So practise. You may get depressed, but its evidence that you are doing good.

  

  Jungkook BTS
  • Time
  • Good
  • Effort

• Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

  

  John N. Mitchell
  • Great

• Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Art
  • Fall
  • Effort