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"There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."
"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."
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"Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score."
"I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling."
"It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there."
"There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself."
"I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions."
"I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready."
"I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies."
"When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays."
"You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive."
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