“I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.”
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Famous Stephen Sondheim Quotes
“Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.”
“The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.”
“With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.”
“Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.”
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
Source: Wordplays 5: An Anthology of New American Drama
“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”
“By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.”
“The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.”
“Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.”
“Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.”
“My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.”
“Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.”
“I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.”
“I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.”
“I was raised to be charming, not sincere.”
Source: Into the Woods