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Stephen Sondheim has 117 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to…
• Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake.. On then with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break…
• It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.
• 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…
• On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and…
• The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
• Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
• Stay a child while you can be a child.

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