The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
—Stephen Sondheim
Topics: Society
When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you’ve written.
—Stephen Sondheim
Topics: Audiences
The concerts you enjoy together, neighbors you annoy together, children you destroy together, that make marriage a joy.
—Stephen Sondheim
Topics: Marriage
Musical comedies aren’t written, they are rewritten.
—Stephen Sondheim
Topics: Humor
If I cannot fly, Let me sing.
—Stephen Sondheim
Topics: Singing
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
Topics: Blessings
Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.
—Stephen Sondheim
Topics: Performance
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- John Cage American Composer
- Oscar Hammerstein II American Songwriter
- Vladimir Horowitz Russian-born American Pianist
- Barbra Streisand American Musician
- Claude Debussy French Composer
- Gian Carlo Menotti Italian-born American Composer
- Oscar Levant American Musician
- Aaron Copland American Composer
- Jon Bon Jovi American Musician
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