Stephen Sondheim Quotes - Page 7

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• Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Math, Levels, Conscious

  "Maestro of Broadway". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• 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.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Thinking, Play, Musical

  "Maestro of Broadway". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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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 . . .

  Stephen Sondheim

  Life, Goodbye, Children

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• When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Weakness, Actors

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• 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.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Book, Writing, Doe

  "Maestro of Broadway". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Roots, Miracle, Bottles

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• Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Wall, Doors, America

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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.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Piano, Pieces, Goes On

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• To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Waiting, Wish, Day To Day

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• 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.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Beauty, Song, Art

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• So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Knows, Written

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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.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Murder Mysteries, Kind, Mystery

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Wicked, Relief, Would Be

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• I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Mean, Stories

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Universal Studios, Stage, Corporate

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Movie, Song, Generations

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Writing, Want

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Albums, Faults, Casts

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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.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Done, Computer

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Swings, Sky, Razors

  Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler (1979). “Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street: a musical thriller”, Dodd Mead

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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.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Children, Past, Justice

  "Into the Woods". m.imdb.com. 2014.

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

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing

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