Stephen Sondheim's Quote - One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fa

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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fa

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. – Stephen Sondheim

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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audiences imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean theres no fourth wall. – Stephen Sondheim

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Im interested in the theater because Im interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music. – Stephen Sondheim

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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. Thats what makes theatre live. Thats why it persists. – Stephen Sondheim

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. – Mario Batali

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If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. – Muriel Rukeyser

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. – T. S. Eliot

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