I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.
Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.
Only capitalists get photographers.
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
Every writer I’ve ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
Puzzles are like songs – A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It’s my mother’s ambition to be a celebrity.
I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don’t like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
I’m a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I’m obviously compulsive about it.
I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
Nice is different than good.
Having just the vision’s no solution, everything depends on execution.
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.
Musical comedies aren’t written, they are rewritten.
Slotted spoons don’t hold much soup...
You’re so nice. You’re not good, you’re not bad, You’re just nice. I’m not good, I’m not nice, I’m just right. I’m the witch. You’re the world.
Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what’s good You decide alone But no one is alone.
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.