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Because Quotes by Stephen Sondheim
- So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
- I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
- Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
- I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
- Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
- Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
- You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
- On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's…
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