#cause

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#because #fell #i #into #lyric

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

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#cast #money #more #much #nowadays

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#back #because #convention #enjoy #generally

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#exactly #fast #get #good #good songs

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. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#because #corporate #expensive #investment #investors

I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#also #always #because #does #funnier

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#because #felt #rehearsing #scary

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers. ↗

— Terry Southern

#beatles #because #cooper #covers #doing

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

#because #before #beings #belief #better