top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'."
Standard
Customized
More
"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I've been a very lucky actor."
Actor
"All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'"
Life
"I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it."
Work
"I'm very open to the up-and-comers."
Open
"It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves."
People
"When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity."
Thought
"I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do."
Public
"It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it."
Work
"Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story."
Work
"I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much."
Marriage
bottom of page