Days Quote by Stephen Sondheim

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often…

— Stephen Sondheim

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…

— Stephen Sondheim

The biggest problem with becoming a father these days...no one tells you how to do it.

— Anonymous

There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but difficult pupil…

— Philip French

“I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything…

— Oscar Hammerstein

Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.

— Billy Rose

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so…

— Bernadette Peters

When I started working on ideas for 'Colors of the Wind,' I gave a lot of thought to the work of two lyricists who…

— Stephen Schwartz

The fact I didn't have my father in my life shaped the way it's gone. And it shaped the way I interact with men…

— Alison Hammond

He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They…

— C. S. Lewis

I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If…

— John David Washington

My stepdad didn't have a father growing up, so he didn't know how to have a father-son style conversation. Plus, we had a tense…

— Lecrae