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Facts about Stephen Sondheim SummaryStephen Sondheim is a famous Composer from USA, he/she is still alive and was born March 22, 1930.Zodiac etc.He/she is born under the zodiac aries, who is known for Active, Demanding, Determined, Effective, Ambitious. Our collection contains 41 quotes who is written / told by Stephen.Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: George Will, Khaleda Zia, Clive James, Tom Metzger, Joe Namath, Willie Mays, Mike Ditka, Martin Yan, Didier Drogba, Øystein Stray Spetalen, Billy Zane, Whitfield Diffie, Twyla Tharp, Richard Scaife, Maria Cantwell, Rachel Corrie, Amy Lee, John C. Reilly, Slash, Amanda Peet Famous quotes by Stephen Sondheim (41)   "I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on"
"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"
"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"
"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music"
"Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father"
"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"
"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it"
"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"
"One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there"
"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"
"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"
"Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them"
"Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration"
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on"
"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't"
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