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I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.
— Stephen Sondheim
I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.
— Stephen Sondheim
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.
— Stephen Sondheim
Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.
— Stephen Sondheim
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
I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.
— Donald Rumsfeld
We're used to shooting our own stuff on our cellphones. We're used to capturing everything.
— Eloise Mumford
I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
— Stephen Sondheim
When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.
— Stephen Sondheim
There is always exception to every rule.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A man is related to all nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I cannot fly, let me sing.
— Stephen Sondheim
A close-up on screen can say all a song can.
— Stephen Sondheim
Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.
— Gregory David Roberts
When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.
— Stephen Sondheim
Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire.
— Bryan Reardon
There's something inimical about the camera and song.
— Stephen Sondheim
software and gadgets. I am sure this project would have taken twice as long without your help.
— T.J. Garrett
Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.
— Stephen Sondheim
Lord I'm Doing All I Can To Be A Better Man.
— Robbie Williams