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Stephen Sondheim Quotes

1930–2021 United States

Stephen Sondheim (born March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) is an American stage musical and film composer and lyricist, one of the few people to win an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize.

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Also known as: Sondheim, Stephen

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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

Oh, if life were made of moments,
Even now and then a bad one!
But if life were only moments,
Then you'd never know you had one.

Into The Woods (1986)

I'm depraved on account of I'm deprived.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

There's a place for us, Somewhere a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air wait for us, Somewhere.
There's a time for us, Some day a time for us
Time together with time to spare, time to look, time to care, Someday.
Somewhere we'll find a new way of living.
We'll find a way of forgiving, Somewhere.'

Mrs. Lovett: What's my secret, frankly dear forgive my candor, family secret all to do with herbs, things like being careful with your coriander, that's what makes the gravy grander.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979)

Don't you love farce?
My fault I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want.
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here.

Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air.
Send in the clowns.

Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Sondheim (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.