American - Composer | March 22, 1930 -
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
Stephen Sondheim
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When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
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The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
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I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
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If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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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.
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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
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The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
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