Sondheim Musical Quotes

#1. 'Sweeney Todd' is my favorite Sondheim musical.

Lesley Nicol

#2. Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. Then make up your own story.

Stephen Sondheim

#3. Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.

Kiese Laymon

#4. If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

Stephen Sondheim

#5. No-one gets beaten to death quite like Hilary Swank

Jimmy Fallon

#6. Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief.

Leon Brown

#7. The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

Algernon Blackwood

#8. Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.

Stephen Sondheim

#9. If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

Bob Dylan

#11. Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Mandy Patinkin

#12. If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in 'A Little Night Music' - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best ... need I say more?

Nancy Allen

#13. Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Stephen Sondheim

#14. Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

Stephen Sondheim

#15. Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

Stephen Sondheim

#16. All things serve the beam

Stephen King

#17. My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

Daniel Radcliffe

#18. Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self ... You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.

Nikki Gemmell

#19. England is no longer controlled by Britons, we are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship, a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life

Nesta Helen Webster