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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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The art of making art, is putting it together.
Stephen Sondheim
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I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
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I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
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The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?
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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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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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My main goal is to tell a story.
Stephen Sondheim
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What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.
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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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A close-up on screen can say all a song can.
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Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
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Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.
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Music is structure out of Chaos
Stephen Sondheim
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The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.
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There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
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Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .
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Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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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.
Stephen Sondheim