Stephen Sondheim

I would have been a geologist. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#geologist #i #would

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#because #communication #concert #i #interested

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

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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. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#got #like #musical #same #song

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#generation #hammerstein #hits #movies #out

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#drowned #generally #get #language #lyric

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#intimately #level #math #music #necessarily

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

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Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#before #collaboration #collaborator #comes #complete

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#create #disbelief #fourth #having #i