Directors Quote by Stephen Sondheim

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that…

— John Corigliano

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble -…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts…

— Sinclair Lewis

There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part…

— Sam Shepard

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and…

— Elvis Costello

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite…

— Rita Dove

You've got to be an editor in order to be a good composer.

— Henry Mancini

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

— Ludwig Goransson

It should be a singer's quality to know what a composer wants and sing accordingly.

— Jeet Gannguli

The only way to help your unique literary voice grow and eventually sing like a glorious creature of wonder is to write what you…

— Vera Nazarian

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that…

— Jerome Kern