Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheimis an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre. Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been described by Frank Rich of The New York Times as "now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater." His best-known works as composer and lyricist include A Funny...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 March 1930
CountryUnited States of America
The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
My cage has many rooms.
Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway...
The art of making art, is putting it together....
There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
Art is craft, not inspiration.