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I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.
Marvin Hamlisch
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Marvin Hamlisch
Age: 68 †
Born: 1944
Born: June 2
Died: 2012
Died: August 7
Actor
Composer
Conductor
Film Producer
Film Score Composer
Songwriter
Manhattan borough
New York City
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch
News
Song
Anything
Make
Things
Garbage
Weather
More quotes by Marvin Hamlisch
I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. You don't have to become the next great composer. It's just nice to have heard certain things or to have seen certain things. It's part of being a human being.
Marvin Hamlisch
I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.
Marvin Hamlisch
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
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
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
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
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
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
If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.
Marvin Hamlisch
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
I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.
Marvin Hamlisch
I never took any vocal training
Marvin Hamlisch
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
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
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