Sir George Henry Martin Quotes

• If you were poor fifty years ago, it meant you didn’t have enough to eat. If you’re poor now, it means you only have one car.

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• When you extend life span, that’s really something. That’s hard to do.

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• What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

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• Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can’t remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

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• Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

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• We’re lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.

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• I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.

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• He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.

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• Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn’t like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn’t have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.

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• And the young people in the 1960’s identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.

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Sir George Henry Martin (10)

Birth:	3rd January, 1926
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Composer, Musician, Record Producer, Music Conductor

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