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

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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.

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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

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The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

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I chose and my word was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken

Stephen Sondheim in Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

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If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

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