Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk’s whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

The future is always beginning now.

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

One of my keys to success is a lot of pillows. I feel like a lot of pillows is important to relax each piece of your body.

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.