Hamlisch Marvin Quotes

#1. Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

Rick Perry

#2. I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

Marvin Hamlisch

#3. My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

Marvin Hamlisch

#4. My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

Marvin Hamlisch

#5. The bottom line is a by-product of taking care of your main product - your customers.

Ron Kaufman

#6. The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

Marvin Hamlisch

#7. Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music is truly an international language, and I hope to contribute by widening communication as much as I can.

Marvin Hamlisch

#8. Let me tell you a few truths about being a stepmother you won't read in any self-help books or get from a therapist. It's emotionally draining to be a stepmother. Being a stepmother is the most difficult job on the planet because no matter what you do, you lose.

Sarah Jo Smith

#9. I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

Marvin Hamlisch

#10. Did you ever feel as if the whole world was a tuxedo, and you were a pair of brown shoes?

George Gobel

#11. Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out ... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.

Marvin Hamlisch

#12. I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

Marvin Hamlisch

#13. As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

Nadia Boulanger

#14. I never took any vocal training.

Marvin Hamlisch

#15. I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts.

Marvin Hamlisch

#16. You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special.

Marvin Hamlisch

#17. There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

Marvin Hamlisch

#18. Achilles' eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. I wish he had let you all die.

Madeline Miller

#19. When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution.

Gerald Chertavian

#20. Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

Marvin Hamlisch

#21. I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

Marvin Hamlisch

#22. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Bill Gates

#23. You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

Marvin Hamlisch

#24. Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

Marvin Hamlisch

#25. Kyra is working on a new program and I'm going to test it. (Chris)
That's one way of putting it. (Urian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#26. I plan to use my hands, my mouth, and my cock to fuck that basic vanilla sex right outta you.

Lorelei James

#27. As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

Marvin Hamlisch

#28. I've been so lonely without you, you dick'
'Don't call me a dick'
'You are, we both are... Got a mental idea me um, why don't we fucking grow up? God, god I love you lol, I can't be with anyone else.

Shane Meadows

#29. Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

Marvin Hamlisch

#30. I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

Marvin Hamlisch

#31. I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.

Jodi Benson

#32. Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.

Marvin Hamlisch

#33. If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.'

Marvin Hamlisch

#34. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

Marvin Hamlisch

#35. From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

Marvin Hamlisch