Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was ‘Salome’s Dances’ by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I’d just keep playing it and playing it.
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I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.
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We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein… The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.
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Birth: | 13th March, 1933 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Composer, Record Producer |
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