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Stephen Sondheim Quotes

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

Stephen Sondheim

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 22, 1930

Topics

Live Music Poetry Page Fade Stage

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

Jermaine Fowler

Wait Someone Back Never Passionate

I think that freedom of speech is just that, and groups have the right to support or oppose issues that are going to affect them as well as individuals do.

Freedom Support Think Speech Right

The wonderful thing about 48 fps is the integration of live action and CG elements; that is something I learned from 'The Hobbit.' We are so used to 24 fps and the romance of celluloid... but at 48 fps, you cannot deny the existence of these CG creations in the same time frame and space and environment as the live action.

Live Time Space Action You Frame

I try not to write jokes that are mean. I try my best to write jokes that are pretty universal and jokes that don't attack anyone. I know I often fall short of that and end up taking unfair swipes at people, but I try not to.

Best People End Short Fall Know

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

Funny Football Laugh Hands Know Got

Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

Grateful Winning Book Better Mean

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Funny Nature Ideas Genius Know

I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.

Life Good Great Growing Up Think

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

Money World Care Making Money Long

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

I Am Feel Person Everything Degree

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, it's time for us to take a hard look at the separate and unequal conditions that still exist in our schools and our communities and rededicate ourselves to fulfilling the promise of equal opportunity for all.

Education Opportunity Time Look Hard

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Music Light Geometry Sounds Optics

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