Quotes About Burt Bacharach

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.

Kate Braverman

#4. A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.

Burt Bacharach

#5. 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

#6. If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

Burt Bacharach

#7. Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

Burt Bacharach

#8. Wasteland is land which is worthless
for cultivation. Like a child who has been emotionally
bruised in a way that can never heal.

Pankaj Suneja

#9. Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

Burt Bacharach

#10. I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

Aaron Carter

#11. I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

Burt Bacharach

#12. 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

#13. We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

Patti Stanger

#14. 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

#15. Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

Burt Bacharach

#16. Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.

Vandana Shiva

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed - they're to be acknowledged.

Jennifer Lane

#21. The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

Burt Bacharach

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

Lars Von Trier

#27. I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

Burt Bacharach

#28. A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

Vera Nazarian

#29. Every moment, as we walk on this earth, we are watched and judged by the eyes of the universe.

Ken Liu