Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

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

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  I would have been a geologist.

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  Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I di

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  My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a cel

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  I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's g

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  Gotta watch out for directors.

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  By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

• Stephen Sondheim:

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