Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
Quotes to Explore
-
I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
-
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
-
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
-
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
-
Sharing is the essence of social media.
-
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
-
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
-
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
-
When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
-
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
-
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
-
I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
-
À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
-
Far from it be the notion that the Supreme Being is corporeal, having a material form.
-
There aren't a lot of supernatural things that I'm scared or super terrified of, but clowns are definitely on that list.
-
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
-
I did try to leave, and she came running after me.
-
I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.
-
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
-
Time to go to work and have fun. Work is play.
-
I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
-
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
-
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
