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Stephen Sondheim

"I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged."

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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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"In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies."
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"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."
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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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"The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?"
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"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure."
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"I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it."
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"One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there."
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"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
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"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."
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