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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
American Composer
Born: Mar 22, 1930
Because Me Music People Song You
Related authors: Elliott Carter Eubie Blake George Crumb John Cage John Williams Leonard Bernstein Oscar Levant Virgil Thomson
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. Stephen Sondheim
Music You Writing Sit Lyrics Way About Writer Make Such A Way Aware Hardest Things
The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890? Stephen Sondheim
Today Art People Sullivan Those Gilbert About Strongly Dates Fact Feel Quaint Felt How How Many People Who Many Popular Compared Grows
I think 'lunch' is one of the funniest words in the world. Stephen Sondheim
Words World Lunch Think Funniest
My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them. Stephen Sondheim
Family People School Care Thought Parents Assumed Everybody Would Give Park Take Had Take Care Know Nanny Around Were West Same Just After After-School Central Central Park Them Much Cookies Who Lived Milk
Every single song I've ever written is sung by a character created by somebody else. Some might have a jaundiced view of love, some don't. But none of these songs is me singing - not a single one. Stephen Sondheim
Love Character Me Song Somebody Singing Single Every Else Sung Some Songs Written None Might Created View Ever
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
Song Think Dramatically Point Songs Hammerstein Trained Move Essentially Oscar Plays
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
Music Good You Yourself Become Too Composers Some More Inventive Pianist Write Piano Piano Player Come Force Limited Up Very Same May Patterns Away Things Player
I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does. Stephen Sondheim
Myself Yourself Father Sense Else Pleasant Humour About Someone More Make Does Lot Than Inherited Fun
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
You Eyes Song Will Sit Few Live Seconds Musicals Tell About Someone Glance Opinionated Still Very Movie Story Theater Movies Whole Shows Live Shows Adapted
I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds. Stephen Sondheim
Great Seconds Easily Disbelief Cry Audience Very Suspend Two
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