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