Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, You're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world.
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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
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I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.
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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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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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The art of making art, is putting it together.
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You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.
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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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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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Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .
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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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It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.
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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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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
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Art is craft, not inspiration.
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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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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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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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Content dictates form and style.
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Gotta watch out for directors.
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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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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
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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.