American - Composer | March 22, 1930 -
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
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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
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Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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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.
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I think 'lunch' is one of the funniest words in the world.
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A close-up on screen can say all a song can.
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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
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I certainly wanted my name in lights. I wanted my name on a marquee. I wanted recognition on Broadway.
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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.
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