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Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
~ Toru Takemitsu
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The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
~ Toru Takemitsu
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
~ Samuel Barber
Ask
Composer
Football
Forget
Go
Me
Meant
Meant To Be
Play
Play Football
Please
Sure
Thing
Try
Unpleasant
Will
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Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.
~ Samuel Wesley
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It is never too late to fall in love.
~ Sandy Wilson
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A close-up on screen can say all a song can.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Close-Up
On-Screen
Say
Screen
Song
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After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
~ Stephen Sondheim
After
Became
Between
Comedy
Hammerstein
In-Between
Just
Opposed
Part
Revolution
Scenes
Songs
Story
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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.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Author
Best
Bring
Different
Live
Makes
More
Paper
Performers
Persists
Put
Role
Something
Than
Theatre
Why
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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Art
Attempt
Bring
Chaos
Itself
Order
Out
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By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Amateur
By The Time
Flawed
Professional
Time
Young
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Ever
Every
Feels
Fraudulent
Other
Some
Spoken
Way
Writer
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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Dead
Either
Everyone
Given
Play
Up
Used
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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
Because
Best
Cast
Generally
Grew
Original
Piece
Recording
Them
Way
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Gotta watch out for directors.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Directors
Gotta
Out
Watch
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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Been
Choice
Choosing
Chose
May
Mistaken
Move
Move On
Shaken
World
You
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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.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Avoid
Go
Just
Listen
Out
Recordings
Songs
Way
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I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Backed
Because
Fell
Lyric
Music
Writing
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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.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Acting
Audience
Believe
Breathe
Chance
Costume
Ear
Firmly
Give
Going
Lyrics
Orchestra
Particularly
Story
Theater
Understand
Where
You
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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.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Always
Been
Buttons
Gadget
Gadgets
Had
Huge
Loved
Man
Military
Military School
New
New York
New York State
Organ
Pipe
Played
School
State
York
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I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Beneath
Hear
Like
Neurotic
People
Prefer
Surface
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