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
Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .
The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!
Just remember, Someone is on your side (our side) Someone else is not While we're seeing our side Maybe we forgot: they are not alone. No one is alone.
You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway...
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.