Top 46 Stephen Schwartz Quotes
#1. The thing about Stephen Schwartz is that, while it may be difficult to learn - it's a little bit like[Stephen] Sondheim; Sondheim is quite difficult to learn - but, once you have it in you: it never leaves you. It becomes some of your favorite music; it really does.
Kerry Ellis
#2. Every so often we long to steal to the land of what-might-have-been. But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in.
Stephen Schwartz
#3. What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.
Stephen Schwartz
#7. While many of my musicals deal with big themes and ideas, I don't intentionally go looking to write shows like that. A story will interest me, and then somewhere along the way, I discover that hidden inside are these epic themes.
Stephen Schwartz
#9. What?"
"Nothing, it's just ... you've been 'Galinda-fied'. You don't have to do that, you know?
Stephen Schwartz
#10. Popular,
You're gonna be
Popular!
I'll teach you the proper ploys
when you talk to boys!
Little ways to flirt
and flounce!
I'll show you what shoes to wear,
how to fix your hair,
everything that really counts,
to be
POPULAR!!
Stephen Schwartz
#11. I don't know if You can hear me,
Or if You're even there,
I don't know if You will listen
To a gypsy's prayer,
Yes, I know I'm just an outcast,
I shouldn't speak to You
But still I see Your face and wonder
Were You once an outcast too?
Stephen Schwartz
#12. You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you, but if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.
Stephen Schwartz
#13. No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow.
Stephen Schwartz
#14. And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone
Stephen Schwartz
#15. Cause getting your dreams
It's strange, but it seems
A little
well
complicated
There's a kind of a sort of : cost
There's a couple of things get : lost
There are bridges you cross
You didn't know you crossed
Until you've crossed.
Stephen Schwartz
#16. So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend
Stephen Schwartz
#17. Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards.
Stephen Schwartz
#18. I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won my share of awards, so I don't worry about it.
Stephen Schwartz
#19. On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message.
Stephen Schwartz
#20. I believe if I refuse to grow old, I can stay young 'til I die.
Stephen Schwartz
#21. Both: "There's been some confusion for you see my roommate is ..."
Galinda: "Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe."
Elphaba: "... Blonde.
Stephen Schwartz
#22. Elphaba: "I just wish ..."
Fiyero: "What?"
Elphaba: "I wish I could be beautiful ... for you."
Fiyero: "Elphaba ..."
Elphaba: "Don't tell me that I am. You don't need to lie to me."
Fiyero: "It's not lying! It's looking at things another way.
Stephen Schwartz
#25. There can be miracles
when you believe
Though hope is frail
It's hard to kill
Who knows what miracles
You can achieve?
When you believe, somehow you will
You will when you believe
Stephen Schwartz
#26. I don't believe in condescending to children. I don't change any writing technique.
Stephen Schwartz
#28. Start a new fashion, wear your heart on your sleeveSometimes you reach what's real just by making believeUnafraid, unashamedThere is joy to be claimed in this worldYou even might wind up being glad to be you.
Stephen Schwartz
#29. I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led to those who help us most to grow
If we let them and we help them in return.
Stephen Schwartz
#31. Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.
Stephen Schwartz
#32. I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.
Stephen Schwartz
#33. Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.
Stephen Schwartz
#35. I think the arts are very important for children growing up.
Stephen Schwartz
#38. Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.
Stephen Schwartz
#39. Because happy is what happens when all your dreams come true!
Well ... isn't it?
Stephen Schwartz
#44. Day by day, dear Lord,
Of Thee three things I pray.
To see Thee more clearly,
Love Thee more dearly,
Follow Thee more nearly,
Day by day.
Stephen Schwartz
#45. I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love It comes at much too high a cost!
Stephen Schwartz
#46. I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.
Stephen Schwartz
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