Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
Stephen SondheimRead
Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the distinction between work done for the benefit of others and art created for personal fulfillment.
Stephen Sondheim emphasizes that work often involves responsibilities and obligations to others, whereas art is a deeply personal expression that serves the artist's own feelings, thoughts, and desires. This distinction prompts individuals to reflect on their motivations and the value of self-expression in their lives.
In practice
During an art exhibit, one could quote this to emphasize the personal nature of artistic expression.
Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.
The essence of cinema is editing.
Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.
Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
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