Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted. Stephen Sondheim More Quotes by Stephen Sondheim More Quotes From Stephen Sondheim White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony. Stephen Sondheim light white order You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, You're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world. Stephen Sondheim witch nice world Slotted spoons don't hold much soup. Stephen Sondheim spoons soup Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes . . . Stephen Sondheim goodbye life children There's something inimical about the camera and song. Stephen Sondheim cameras song I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep! Stephen Sondheim hope So here's to the girls on the go Stephen Sondheim lunch girl eye The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact. Stephen Sondheim marriage humorous children I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end. Stephen Sondheim murder-mysteries mystery kind Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art. Stephen Sondheim play art fall I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records. Stephen Sondheim teens band listening Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money. Stephen Sondheim universal-studios corporate stage I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music. Stephen Sondheim piano pieces goes-on I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way. Stephen Sondheim careers way thinking I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it. Stephen Sondheim my-way song way In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece. Stephen Sondheim pieces want worry I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it. Stephen Sondheim writing Only capitalists get photographers. Stephen Sondheim capitalist photographer I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual. Stephen Sondheim party silly kids That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing. Stephen Sondheim good-times awards body
