Top 27 Bacharach Quotes
#1. I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.
Jill Sobule
#2. I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon.
Eliza Doolittle
#3. She performed a few Bacharach songs next: "Close to You," "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," "Walk On By," plus Laura Nyro's "Wedding Bell Blues.
Haruki Murakami
#4. I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.
Aretha Franklin
#5. Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
Pharrell Williams
#6. I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.
Burt Bacharach
#7. I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
Burt Bacharach
#8. Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.
Burt Bacharach
#9. I never liked hearing anyone say I was the new George Gershwin, because I knew I could have never even carried that man's music case. If George Gershwin hadn't died when he was thirty-nine years old, there is no knowing how much more great music he would have written.
Burt Bacharach
#10. The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.
Burt Bacharach
#12. This capacity to fold the completely weird into daily life, to make the aliens ourselves, is a quality I look for in a good, weird book.
Jacob Bacharach
#13. Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.
George Washington Carver
#14. I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
Burt Bacharach
#15. I have notes in my bathroom, yellow notes, and I stick 'em on the mirror, things that happened that were uplifting boosters for me. Notes that say, "Today is special, make today count." And then I have one note on the mirror in the middle that says, "Look at the other notes.
Burt Bacharach
#16. We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
Ulrich Beck
#17. Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.
Burt Bacharach
#18. The nice thing about the fashion industry is that you're constantly working on something new.
Lauren Conrad
#19. It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.
Burt Bacharach
#20. I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.
Burt Bacharach
#21. I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
Burt Bacharach
#22. When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.
Holly Near
#23. Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
Burt Bacharach
#24. Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.
Burt Bacharach
#25. If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.
Burt Bacharach
#26. A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
Burt Bacharach
#27. I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.
Burt Bacharach
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