Top 8 Sondheim Lyric Quotes
#1. Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
Stephen Sondheim
#2. I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
Stephen Sondheim
#3. Dude, you just got fucked up by a girl." Chico Rivera
Bella Jeanisse
#4. Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device.
Mary Roach
#5. Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
Ace Frehley
#6. We made war on the planet, and the planet fought back.
Justin Cronin
#7. Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Stephen Sondheim
#8. I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
Albert Einstein
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