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Songs Quotes by Stephen Sondheim
- So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
- Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface…
- After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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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- A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than… — Sebastian Bach
- To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know. — Sebastian Bach
- My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. — Randy Bachman
- A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. — Bryan Adams
- I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were… — Travis Barker
- As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate. — Beck
- I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. — Joseph Addison
- Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing… — Adele
- It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect. — Aaliyah