"Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers."
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
"Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk."
"If nobody had bought this record it would have been one too many!"
"The public doesn't want new music: the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead."
composer
"Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy"
after Geffen Records sued him for not fulfilling his contract, even though he delivered records, Geffen's response: "Mr Young's records are impossible to promote"
"The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops."
choreographer
"Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things."
working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music"
"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutang trying to play the violin."
"You can't eat a winner's plaque."
on his years as a young aspiring genius in N.Y. he got noticed, he was praised, but he didn't get too many actual jobs.
"After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you - not one of you - enter!"
Rebuking an incompetant orchestra
Quotedb: The Quotations Database
