Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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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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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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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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If I cannot fly, let me sing.
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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
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It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.
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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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The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
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Stay a child while you can be a child.
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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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The art of making art, is putting it together.
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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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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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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
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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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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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Art is craft, not inspiration.
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My main goal is to tell a story.
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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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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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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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Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .
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The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?