Latest Stephen Sondheim Quotes from Interviews

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• Content dictates form and style.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Style, Form

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

• It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Two, Interesting, Different

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

• I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Thinking, Careers, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

• That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Awards, Body, Good Times

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

• I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Writing, Pieces

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• 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

• I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Mean, Stories

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Actors, Done, Singers

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• 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

• If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Rooms, Involved, Ifs

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com