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Stage Quotes by Stephen Sondheim
- You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your…
- The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
- 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…
- One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage…
More Stage Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. — Arthur Ashe
- I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It… — Aaliyah
- As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times.… — Kevin Bacon
- I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there. — Eric Bana
- I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all… — Roseanne Barr
- I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time. — Syd Barrett
- Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin.… — Ethel Barrymore
- The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and… — John Adams
- Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me. — Victoria Beckham