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.
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.
Every day a little death.
I’m before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love’s disgusting, love’s insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.
Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it’s bad for the heart.
Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!
The man i’ll never be, Who remembers him?
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I’ve seen, without exception, in my opinion don’t work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
You can’t have personal investors anymore because it’s too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I’ve always been a gadget man.