#era

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

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

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#freezing #melt #moment #mortality #mutability

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#eventually #everyone #makes #other #own

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#album #extended #extended family #family #generally

"Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#exaggerated #love #particular #style #terms

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#beauty #become #change #continues #historical

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#become #been #camera #photographs #rather

It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#always #generations #great #guitar #guitar players

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. ↗

— Sophocles

#general #good #good news #impart #merit