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Writing Quotes by Stephen Sondheim
- A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til…
- Art is craft, not inspiration.
- The only reason to write is from love.
- Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
- I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.
- Writing is a form of mischief.
- If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love…
- Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
- I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
- I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
- The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
- The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on…
- When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
- My idea of heaven is not writing.
- One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware…
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