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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development
"When life gives you pain, give life your unconditional love."
"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
Explore more quotes by Stephen Sondheim
"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."
"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."
"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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