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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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. – Stephen Sondheim

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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies. – 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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I used to joke that if acting didnt work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. – Merritt Wever

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People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I – Harold Bloom

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