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

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

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

- 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 still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

- 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…

- Marvin Hamlisch

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

- Marvin Hamlisch

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

- 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.

- Marvin Hamlisch