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Stephen Sondheim

"A close-up on screen can say all a song can."

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Donna Grant

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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Donna Grant

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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Donna Grant

"I listen to music constantly while writing."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."

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Donna Grant

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."

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Donna Grant

"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."

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Donna Grant

"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."

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Stephen Sondheim
"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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Stephen Sondheim
"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."

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Stephen Sondheim
"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."

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

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Stephen Sondheim
"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."

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Stephen Sondheim
"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."

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Stephen Sondheim
"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface."

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Stephen Sondheim
"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."

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Stephen Sondheim
"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."

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Stephen Sondheim
"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."

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