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
It ain't just a question of misunderstood, Deep down inside him, he's no good
The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy
You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.
Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an "and" when you're back to "or" makes the "or" mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.
Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .
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.
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.
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.
The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
Gotta watch out for directors.
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.
I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.