Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.
I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up… - Marvin Hamlisch
I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up…
- Marvin Hamlisch
I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. Yo… - Marvin Hamlisch
I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. Yo…
My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening. - Marvin Hamlisch
My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.
As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous ene… - Marvin Hamlisch
As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous ene…
You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence. - Marvin Hamlisch
You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.
I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news. - Marvin Hamlisch
I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.
I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us. - Marvin Hamlisch
I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.
From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thin… - Marvin Hamlisch
From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thin…
My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one. - Marvin Hamlisch
My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
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