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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

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

- Stephen Sondheim

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

- Stephen Sondheim

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

- Stephen Sondheim

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

- Stephen Sondheim

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

- Stephen Sondheim

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

- Stephen Sondheim

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