Stephen Sondheim ,quotes

Gotta watch out for directors....

Gotta watch out for directors.

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I don't listen to recordings o...

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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I fell into lyric writing beca...

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

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I really don't want to write a...

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

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I was raised to be charming, n...

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

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If you're dealing with a music...

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

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Lyrics have to be underwritten...

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

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Musical comedies aren't writte...

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

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Nowadays, there are sometimes ...

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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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrog...

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

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The more restrictions you have...

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

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The movie adaptations of stage...

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

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When the audience comes in, it...

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

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You can't have personal invest...

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

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On stage, generally speaking, ...

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

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The worst thing you can do is ...

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

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I firmly believe lyrics have t...

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

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I love the theater as much as ...

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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I played the organ when I went...

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

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Musicals are, by nature, theat...

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

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