Sondheim Lyric Quotes & Sayings

We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph. — Christian Boltanski

Don't wake up one day and wonder where your life has gone. Make your dreams come true. — Wendie Nordgren

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out. — Shekhar Kapur

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury. — Harriet Jacobs

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life. — Charlie Haden

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. — Stephen Sondheim

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do. — Stephen Sondheim

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it. — Stephen Sondheim