In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

Many a man wants glory but fails to work.

Scale yourself. Go beyond what you can do and what you know. Look at your content machine and make it work nonstop, seamlessly, and at scale with or without you.

You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

The business of government is justice.