Sondheim Quotes

• Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Musical, World, Theater

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• In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Prayer, Names, People

  "Mandy Patinkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2012.

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• No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

  Bernadette Peters

  Thinking, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.

  James Ponsoldt

  Rain, Mean, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

  Pete Townshend

  Song, Writing

  "Generation terrorists" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2006.

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• I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.

  Kate Bush

  Long Ago, Two, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

  Christoph Waltz

  Thinking, Genius, Use

  "'Unchained' Admiration Between Actor And Director". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 18, 2012.

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• My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Car, Parent, Musical

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• I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.

  Elaine Stritch

  Compare

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• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  Laura Benanti

  Song, Mirrors, Sky

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'd never even sung in the shower, I'm too mortified. But once I got over the initial fear it was kind of enjoyable. Sondheim's melodies and lyrics are a real pleasure to tromp around in, it's really beautiful stuff.

  Johnny Depp

  Beautiful, Real, Stuff

  Interview with Orlando Parfitt, www.ign.com. January 23, 2008.

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• Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

  Tom Shales

  Kids, Talking, Adults

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• I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheims Assassins at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.

  Robert Lopez

  Thinking, Assassins, Brilliant

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• The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

  Lea Salonga

  Appreciation, Doe, Needs

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• I think it's probably, musically, probably the most sophisticated. ("The Woman in White") There's a lot more daring harmony in it than in some of my pieces... If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask, isn't it?... Sondheim is absolutely wonderful and Alan Jay Lerner was wonderful.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Successful, Thinking, White

  Interview with Paul Fischer, www.moviehole.net. December 20, 2004.

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• Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.

  Christoph Waltz

  Awe

  "'Unchained' Admiration Between Actor And Director". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 18, 2012.

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• I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.

  Imelda Staunton

  Thinking, Singing, Extraordinary Things

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• I'm very, very sad to say that the only Sondheim show I've done is "A Little Night Music" and it was when I was in college.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Night, College, Done

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 2, 2010.

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• The thing about Stephen Schwartz is that, while it may be difficult to learn - it's a little bit like[Stephen] Sondheim; Sondheim is quite difficult to learn - but, once you have it in you: it never leaves you. It becomes some of your favorite music; it really does.

  Kerry Ellis

  Doe, May, Littles

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

  Bernadette Peters

  Song, Oscars, Wonderful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in A Little Night Music - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?

  Nancy Allen

  Beautiful, Sexy, Smart

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• The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

  Nancy Allen

  Genius, Fabulous, Three

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• I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

  Laura Lippman

  Running, Tape, Adore

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• My experience with Sondheim has been nothing but glorious, especially for a guy who doesn't sing.

  Johnny Depp

  Guy, Glorious, Has Beens

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.

  Charles Busch

  Appreciation, Saws, Thirty

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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