Quotes from Stephen Schwartz

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

It's just life, so keep dancing through.

I don't believe in condescending to children. I don't change any writing technique.

Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards.

While many of my musicals deal with big themes and ideas, I don't intentionally go looking to write shows like that. A story will interest me, and then somewhere along the way, I discover that hidden inside are these epic themes.

I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won my share of awards, so I don't worry about it.

Both: There's been some confusion for you see my roommate is ... Galinda: Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe. Elphaba: ... Blonde.

And if I'm flying solo At least I'm flying free

What? Nothing, it's just ... you've been 'Galinda-fied'. You don't have to do that, you know?

Because happy is what happens when all your dreams come true! Well ... isn't it?

Well, we can't all come and go by bubble!

I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so. Some things I cannot change but 'till I try I'll never know. Too long I've been afraid of losing love, I guess I've lost. Well, if that's love it comes at much too high a cost. I'd sooner buy defying gravity.

Every so often we long to steal to the land of what-might-have-been. But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in.

I don't know if You can hear me, Or if You're even there, I don't know if You will listen To a gypsy's prayer, Yes, I know I'm just an outcast, I shouldn't speak to You But still I see Your face and wonder Were You once an outcast too?

BUT IF YOU'RE SMART, YOU'LL LEARN YOUR LESSON WELL.

Now no one can be the slave of two masters

You who I called brother How could you have come to hate me so? Is this what you wanted? I send the swarm, I send the horde Then let my heart be hardened And never mind how high the cost may grow This will still be so I will never let your people go

There can be miracles when you believe Though hope is frail It's hard to kill Who knows what miracles You can achieve? When you believe, somehow you will You will when you believe

Its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.

It's just life, so keep dancing through.

Those who don't try never look foolish.