Top 32 Marvin 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. You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.
Regina King
#4. I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.
Marvin Hamlisch
#5. My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.
Marvin Hamlisch
#6. 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
#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. I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.
Marvin Hamlisch
#10. 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
#11. I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.
Ricardo Semler
#12. I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.
Marvin Hamlisch
#14. Black Poetry is not for Black People ... it is for everybody
Nikki Giovanni
#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. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.
Marvin Hamlisch
#19. If you look at anything successful, you will find traces of a good leader in it.
Idowu Koyenikan
#20. If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.'
Marvin Hamlisch
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.
Wynton Marsalis
#28. 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
#29. I want to give away the money. I don't want to die with it. I want the money to be used well.
William E. Conway Jr.
#30. 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
#31. The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.
Jerry Bridges
#32. Walking away, I mentally hear glass cracking under my feet because I step right over my shattered heart.
Belle Aurora
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