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The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

- Stephen Sondheim

Other quotes by Stephen Sondheim

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

- Stephen Sondheim

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

- Stephen Sondheim

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

- Stephen Sondheim

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

- Stephen Sondheim

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

- Stephen Sondheim

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

- Stephen Sondheim

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