Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheimis an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre. Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been described by Frank Rich of The New York Times as "now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater." His best-known works as composer and lyricist include A Funny...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 March 1930
CountryUnited States of America
You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.
For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.
Nice is different than good.
You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, You're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world.
Slotted spoons don't hold much soup...
You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.
Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.
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.
Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.
I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.