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.”

“The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.”

“Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.”

“Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!”

“I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.”

“I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.”

“When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.”