Top 69 Quotes by Stephen Sondheim

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

I think 'lunch' is one of the funniest words in the world.

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

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

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

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.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.