Stephen Sondheim Good Quotations

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

It ain't just a question of misunderstood, Deep down inside him, he's no good

Sometimes people leave you halfway through the woods. Do not let it grieve you, no one leaves for good

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.