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"I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood."
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"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."
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"I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years."
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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."
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"I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer."
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"I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow."
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"Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse."
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"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."
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"I find Hollywood really toxic."
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"Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course."
Artist
"I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me."
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"I grew up on film scores and scores from films."
Film
"Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market."
Orchestras
"While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music."
Money
"I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now."
Business
"I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now."
Experience
"We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do."
Business
"Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow."
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"I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood."
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