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
It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.
Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
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.
You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.