You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.

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.

... as Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to 'metal objects designed to cause harm'.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

Do whatever you must, Karigan," he told her, his voice so quiet it would not carry, "to come back. You must come back. To me." ~King Zachary

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

There is no democracy without journalism.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.