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• 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

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• Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

  Stephen Sondheim

  Clever, Thrones, Passionate

  Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine (1988). “Into the Woods”, Crown

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• My cage has many rooms.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Rooms, Cages

  Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler (1979). “Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street: a musical thriller”, Dodd Mead

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• I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Murder Mysteries, Kind, Mystery

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Fun, Character, Unexpected

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• For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Albums, Faults, Casts

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• Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story forward, and Johnny finds the most remarkable variety within that narrow set of emotions. The intensity is at a boil all the time and he never drops it. It's real anger.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Hurt, Revenge, Real

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• Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Spoons, Soup

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• Anything that is white is sweet.
  Anything that is brown is meat.
  Anything that is grey, don't eat.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Sweet, Food, White

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• Every day a little death.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Death, Littles

  Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, Ingmar Bergman (1997). “A little night music: a new musical”, Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.

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• The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Marriage, Children, Humorous

  "The Little Things You Do Together" (song) (1970)

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• I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Listening, Band, Teens

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Names, Black, World

  Song: No Place Like London

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• 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.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Differences, Pages, Stage

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• Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Art, Fall, Play

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• Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Way, Feels

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• A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Writing, Perfection

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• Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Pieces, Way, Grew

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• 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

  Song, Rocks, Creating

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• 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.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Vaccines, People, Rich

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• I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Party, Silly, Kids

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• Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Jobs, Kissing, Design

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• I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Dream, Expectations, Looks

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• I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Love, Business, Stupid

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• I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Hope

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