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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Cast
Really
Score
Show
Staged
Until
Want
Whole
Write
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Charming
I Was Raised
Raised
Sincere
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I would have been a geologist.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Been
Geologist
Would
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If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
~ Stephen Sondheim
About
Dismiss
Feel
Flattering
I Think
People
Rather
Something
Split
Than
Them
Think
Views
Work
Your
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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
Dealing
Got
Like
Musical
Same
Same Time
Song
Sound
Speech
Story
Tell
Time
Trying
Which
You
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Came
Generation
Hammerstein
Hits
Movies
Out
Popular
Shows
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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Because
Drowned
Generally
Get
Language
Lyric
Lyrics
Make
Poets
Poor
Rich
Too
Why
Writers
You
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Conscious
Level
Math
Music
Necessarily
Related
Sure
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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Comedies
Musical
Rewritten
Written
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Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Audience
Before
Collaboration
Collaborator
Complete
Got
Last
Musicals
Plays
Wait
You
Your
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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Audience
Create
Disbelief
Fourth
Having
Imagination
Mean
Meaning
Move
Musicals
Nature
Poetic
Suspension
Theatrical
Wall
Which
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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Ambition
Celebrity
Clothes
Collector
Designed
Hands
Her
Me
Mother
Off
She
Wanted
Woman
Working
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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Artistic
Each
Interfere
Life
Other
Personal
Personal Life
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Nice is different than good.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Different
Good
Nice
Than
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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Because
Cast
Money
More
Much
Nowadays
People
Producers
Put
Show
Sometimes
Takes
Than
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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
Background
Between
Difference
Fade
Live
Lyrics
Music
Page
Poetry
Set
Sort
Stage
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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
About
Aware
Hardest
Lyrics
Make
Music
Sit
Such A Way
Things
Way
Writer
Writing
You
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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Days
Father
Hammerstein
Many
Months
My Own
Oscar
Own
See
Surrogate
Those
Weeks
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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Because
Exactly
Exactly What
Fast
Get
Good
Know
Many
Songs
Work
Written
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The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Broadway
Country
Down
Dumber
Get
Gets
Itself
Public
Reflects
Shows
Them
Used
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