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Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.”
— Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park With George
Tagged: Doing What Makes You Happy, Doing Things You Like, Passion
“There's a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit.”
— Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tagged: Hole, Darkness, Evil, World
“Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new. Give us more to see...”
— Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park With George
Tagged: Doing, Uniqueness, Creativity, Effort
“Because in all of the whole human race
Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two
There's the one staying put in his proper place
And the one with his foot in the other one's face”
— Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tagged: Men, human race
“They all deserve to die.
Even you, Mrs. Lovett
Even I.

Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief
For the rest of us death would be relief.”
— Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tagged: Death, Life, wicked, Relief
“I chose and my world was shaken, so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.”
— Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park With George
Tagged: Choice, decision, Mistakes
“You life has made you beautiful. Your suffering has made you fine.”
— Stephen Sondheim, Assasins
Tagged: Life, beauty, Suffering, Endurance
“Best to take the moment present
As a present for the moment”
— Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods
Tagged: moment, present, Time, Staying in the moment
“No one has ever loved me
As deeply as you.
No one has truly shown me
What love could be like until now:

Not pretty or safe or easy
But more than I ever knew.
Love within reason -
That isn't love.
And I've learned that from you..”
— Stephen Sondheim, Passion
Tagged: Love, Reason, Feelings, romance, Perspective, Change of perspective
“I read to see myself in other people's lives.”
— Stephen Sondheim, Passion
Tagged: Reading, Books, People, Life, Perspective, Seeing Differently
“Bit by bit, putting it together...
Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art.
Every moment makes a contribution,
Every little detail plays a part.
Having just the vision's no solution,
Everything depends on execution,
Putting it together, that's what counts.”
— Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park With George
Tagged: Work, Art, Detail, contribution, Vision, execution, Making Art, Art & Expression
“A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.”
— Stephen Sondheim, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics
Tagged: Folktale, Moral, Story, Tale
“Careful the things you say,
Children will listen.
Careful the things you do,
Children will see.
And learn.

Children may not obey
But children will listen.
Children will look to you
For which way to turn,
To learn what to be.

Careful before you say,
"Listen to me."
Children will listen.”
— Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods
Tagged: Children, obedience, Listening, Learning
“Loving you is not a choice,
It's who I am.
Loving you is not a choice
And not much reason to rejoice,
But it gives me purpose
Gives me voice to say to the world:
This is why I live
You are why I live.

Loving you is why I do
The things I do
Loving you is not in my control.
But loving you, I have a goal
For what's left of my life...
I would live,
And I would die for you.”
— Stephen Sondheim, Passion
Tagged: Love, purpose, Choice, Life, Sacrifice
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