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I don't think I've ever spent more than an hour on any one song, but that doesn't count the thinking that goes on beforehand.
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I'm usually the last man on the totem pole. Except for the sound effects and the final sound mix, the score is the last element to be added to a picture.
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You know, I started in movies a long time ago, and once in awhile I'm taken aback. Sometimes one of my things will come on - they use my things as background music all the time, in somebody else's arrangements and It catches my ear.
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The basic problem with young people entering show business is that they are in a hurry.
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I don't want to get corny, but my career really has been the personification of the American dream.
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I find I work best as a reactor, trying to portray something on a screen musically. If I were a boxer, I'd be a counter-puncher.
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Blake Edwards has set up an extraordinary combination of moods in 'Peter Gunn.' When you stop to analyze it, you can't find the boundaries where the music stops and the show takes over.
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Hopefully the music of the future will not be all electronic. There is a place for it if it is used sparingly.
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I used to be selected for the Pennsylvania all-state orchestra. It was a thrill to go from my home town of Aliquippa clear across the state to Lancaster for the concerts. No kid is immune to that kind of experience.
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The man who writes for hire has an obligation, if only to himself, to keep an open mind and to absorb new ideas.
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I have an Otari with a Korg T2 Midi synthesizer, a drum machine and a few effects units.
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I used to raise the devil when my father made me practice the flute and my mother made me take piano lessons.
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It's very difficult to be funny musically. I think I achieved It with 'The Pink Panther.'
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I just write when the bell rings. I don't have time to wait for inspiration.
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People love to hear a guy who is really good on his instrument. They love to watch him go.
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I was never In a restaurant until after I left home. My mother came from Abruzzi and they're noted for their great cooking.
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Stravinsky influenced film music in general - those stabbing chords and rhythms from 'The Rite of Spring.'
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My kids will come to me and ask me to listen to a 'new sound' they think they've discovered. One time it was the Beatles' 'Yesterday,' and the new sound was four strings. All of a sudden the new generation discovers the string quartet!
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Quite a few of The Rolling Stones records have had a great honesty about them. In fact, I would put them side-by-side with a 'Treasury of Folk Music' collection, containing all the prison songs, the farm and road-gang songs that were recorded on the spot in the Deep South.
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Well, I thought the opening of 'Hatari!' was pretty good. And 'The Pink Panther' wasn't half bad either.
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If you call making people smile with 'The Pink Panther,' then I made a contribution.
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When I play 'Newhart' in concert, it always gets a hand, right from the very beginning. To me, 'Newhart' is a hit.
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Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.
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I read magazines and reviews. If consensus says something is good, I'll get it and see what's going on.
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You know, my career hasn't exactly been the sort of thing that usually happens to film composers, but I sure am glad it happened to me.
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Music has been taken over in this country by personalities and dominated by rock 'n' roll. There's been a synthesizer invasion and it's not going to go away.
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Themes on some TV shows are overdone. That 'Playhouse 90' theme music was an example.
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I had no idea 'Moon River' would do so well. I was too busy working to think about it.
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You know, directors are funny people. They live with these movies for a year or more. And when you go in to score the picture, you're fooling with their child. They want to know everything that happens to the score - and why.
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I just think the time and where I was brought up had a great deal to do in giving me the ambition to kind of get out and do something and not go into the steel mill.
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Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make that common denominator memorable.
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In times of stress, I frequently remind myself that I'm doing what I want to do most and that's what really counts.
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