Top 38 Hamlisch Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.
Marvin Hamlisch
#4. My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.
Marvin Hamlisch
#5. 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
#6. Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha."
"I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!
Terry Pratchett
#7. The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.
Marvin Hamlisch
#8. 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
#9. Never forget, the greatest battle we'll ever face is the battle within ourselves.
Brad Meltzer
#10. I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.
Marvin Hamlisch
#11. 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
#12. I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.
Marvin Hamlisch
#13. I want you to officiate your brother's wedding ceremony." "What?" Forrest would have been less surprised if his father had told him he wanted him to wear a tutu and cluck like a chicken. "I don't understand. That's the alpha's job." "Yes,
Renee George
#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. Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.
Warren Eyster
#17. You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special.
Marvin Hamlisch
#18. We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
Jeremy Collier
#19. 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
#20. I think people around you should feel like you're always approachable and always open. I mean, kindness - top of the list. And I like people who seem very grounded. That's a lovely quality in a leading player.
Erin Davie
#21. Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.
Walter Cradock
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by.
George Eliot
#26. If you have the winning cards, why cheat?
John McAfee
#27. 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
#28. 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
#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'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.
Marvin Hamlisch
#31. When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.
Peace Pilgrim
#32. 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
#33. My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.
James Nicoll
#34. You know how you have a good meal and you got gravy left on the plate. The gravy was so good that you don't want to leave it on the plate but you don't want to be a pig about it? So you take your bread and use it to sop up the rest of the gravy. That guy is totally soppable!
Erin Jamison
#35. If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.
Mary Lou Williams
#36. 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
#37. If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.'
Marvin Hamlisch
#38. Holding on to the past means you can never be open to having a future
Laurann Dohner
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