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From Quotes by Stephen Sondheim
- The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you...
- No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or…
- The only reason to write is from love.
- The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work…
- Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
- I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.
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