The signs as Sondheim quotes
Aries: I work entirely with black leadded pencils. For a number of reasons. 1, it’s very soft lead, and therefore wears down very quickly. So you can spend a lot of time resharpening. Which is a lot easier and more fun than writing.
Taurus: I never thought very highly of awards, but I must say, it's awfully nice to win one.
Gemini: I love the theatre as much as I love music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and exciting them - making them laugh - making them cry - just making them feel is paramount to me.
Cancer: I write lying down... So I can fall asleep.
Leo: Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious.
Virgo: [on what one thing he'd say to Oscar Hammerstein] I would say, "aren't you proud of me?"
Libra: If you laugh at a movie screen, or boo at a movie screen, or anything, the actors go right on. They do exactly what they wanna do. Same thing with television. But not the theatre. And that's why, I'm proud to be in if.
Scorpio: What Sweeney Todd is really about is having a good time.
Sagittarius: It ["Sunday"] all leads to the word forever. Which is- when I wrote that word, I cried, because I thought, that’s what it’s about. And I then decided, that I would do it all in one sentence. It’s a lyric that’s in one sentence. Uh, because there is a kind of… I don’t know how to put it. It’s like it’s eternal, it’s infinite, whatever, whatever- it’s what I feel about art… It just has no beginning and no end. It’s just one thing.
Capricorn: A lot of people have done, historically, musicals to forget their troubles, c'mon, get happy. I'm not interested in that. I'm not interested in making people unhappy, but I'm not interested in not looking at life. I don't know why I'd wanna write it, otherwise.
Aquarius: I’ve often used alcohol, as a help in writing. It’s very good for loosening up the inhibitions as long as you don’t drink too much. An in fact, the only thing I’ve ever written that’s just on water, is the score for a movie called Stavisky. And I realized it was ‘cause I didn’t have to write lyrics.
Pisces: Teaching, to me, is the sacred profession and I cry when I talk about it and I'll probably cry now [...] So teaching to me is, is a necessity. I couldn't live without it.
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