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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I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.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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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.
Stephen Sondheim
My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
Stephen Sondheim
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim
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