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Stephen Sondheim - From the Art category:
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Audience category:
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Audience category:
When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Choices category:
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)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Creativity category:
If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Criticism category:
The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Critics category:
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)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Eccentricity category:
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Emotion category:
I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Goodness category:
Nice is different than good. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Humour category:
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)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Invention category:
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Modernism category:
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)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Music category:
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)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Performance category:
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)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Problems category:
The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Profession category:
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Recognition category:
I certainly wanted my name in lights. I wanted my name on a marquee. I wanted recognition on Broadway. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Vision category:
Having just a vision's no solution / Everything depends on execution (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Words category:
I think 'lunch' is one of the funniest words in the world. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Writing category:
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service. (Stephen Sondheim)
Stephen Sondheim - From the Writing category:
My idea of heaven is not writing. (Stephen Sondheim)
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