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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
#Difference
#Live
#Music
#Poetry
#Stage
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Me
#Opinion
#People
#Stage
#Work
My idea of heaven is not writing.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Heaven
#Idea
#Writing
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
#Create
#Imagination
#Meaning
#Nature
The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Anything
#Easier
#More
#Write
#You
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
#Feel
#Laugh
#Love
#Me
#Music
Gotta watch out for directors.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Directors
#Gotta
#Out
#Watch
The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Country
#Down
#Get
#Public
#Used
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
#Believe
#Chance
#Ear
#Understand
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Between
#Comedy
#Just
#Revolution
#Story
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Beneath
#Hear
#Like
#People
#Surface
Nice is different than good.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Different
#Good
#Nice
#Than
I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Just
#Mathematics
#Nature
#Take
#Want
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Comedies
#Musical
#Rewritten
#Written
I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Charming
#I Was Raised
#Raised
#Sincere
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
#Feel
#People
#Something
#Work
#Your
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Because
#Communication
#Concert
#Music
#Would
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
#Collaboration
#Got
#Last
#Wait
A close-up on screen can say all a song can.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Close-Up
#Say
#Screen
#Song
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Conscious
#Level
#Math
#Music
#Sure
The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Doing
#Know
#Nice
#Puzzle
#Solution
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
#Best
#Live
#Paper
#Theatre
#Why
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
#Move
#World
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
- Stephen Sondheim
#Art
#Attempt
#Bring
#Chaos
#Order
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