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Stephen Sondheim
American
March 22, 1930
Composer
My idea of heaven is not writing.
Stephen Sondheim
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Writing
Idea
Heaven
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Stephen Sondheim
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Written
Musical
Comedies
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim
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Out
Art
Itself
My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
Stephen Sondheim
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Life
Other
Each
Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
Stephen Sondheim
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Best
Because
Them
When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.
Stephen Sondheim
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Way
Even
Too
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
Stephen Sondheim
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Money
People
Because
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.
Stephen Sondheim
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You
Because
Get
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
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You
Just
Know
My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
Stephen Sondheim
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Me
Wanted
Off
Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.
Stephen Sondheim
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Every
New
Before
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.
Stephen Sondheim
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Music
Me
Just
Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of nearly all the great scenes in all the great plays, from 'Oedipus' to 'Hamlet.'
Stephen Sondheim
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Time
Great
You
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.
Stephen Sondheim
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Always
Had
Been
I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in movies, a glance from someone's eyes will tell you the whole story in a few seconds.
Stephen Sondheim
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Movies
You
About
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.
Stephen Sondheim
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Good
Music
You
