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Stephen Sondheim

It's pleasanter to work in th...

It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.

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Stephen Sondheim

Oscar Hammerstein was a surro...

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

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Stephen Sondheim

Lemuel Ayers had had a huge s...

Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.

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Stephen Sondheim

I get some flak for and some ...

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

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Stephen Sondheim

I was watching him crawl, Bac...

I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.

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Stephen Sondheim

I started listening to classi...

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

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Stephen Sondheim

For me it's more fun to find ...

For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

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Stephen Sondheim

In not-for-profit theater, yo...

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

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Stephen Sondheim

Puzzles are like songs - A go...

Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

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Stephen Sondheim

By the time I get through wri...

By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.

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Stephen Sondheim

They wanted me to be a concer...

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

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Stephen Sondheim

I don't write songs apart fro...

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.

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Stephen Sondheim

Now, this one might be a litt...

Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player." That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player." How can you tell?" It's PIPING hot!" Then blow on it first!

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Stephen Sondheim

Almost all the shows I've bee...

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

Stephen Sondheim 178 quotes
Stephen Sondheim

Take a play that you like but...

Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

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Stephen Sondheim

Am I not sensitive, clever, w...

Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

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Stephen Sondheim

You get used to the exact amo...

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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Stephen Sondheim

I'm interested in the theater ...

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

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Stephen Sondheim

All the best performers bring ...

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

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Stephen Sondheim

Art, in itself, is an attempt ...

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

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