By the time I was 22, I was...... Quote by "Stephen Sondheim"

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

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
— Stephen Sondheim

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

Tags: score, write, show, want

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
— Stephen Sondheim

Tags: may, choice, world, you

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
— Stephen Sondheim

Tags: language, words, life, love

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
— Stephen Sondheim

Tags: comedies, musical, written