Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes . . .
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The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
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Into the woods--you have to grope, But that's the way you learn to cope. Into the woods to find there's hope Of getting through the journey.
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By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
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I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.
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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
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Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.
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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
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The art of making art, is putting it together.
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Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
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The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
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I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.
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It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.
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You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.
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Stay a child while you can be a child.
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It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.
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My main goal is to tell a story.
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Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .
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Art is craft, not inspiration.
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That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.
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Content dictates form and style.