Skitch Henderson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Tomorrow #Longevity
I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Music #Artist
I grew up on film scores and scores from films.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Film #Score #Grew
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.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Stars #Writing #Play
Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Radio #Disappear
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.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Real #Ice Cream #Light
I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Munich #Germany #Orchestra
I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me.
-- Skitch Henderson

#School #Years #Nbc
Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Artist #Different #Wells
Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Orchestra
In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Independent #Way #Starting
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
-- Skitch Henderson

#House #Demise #Orchestra
I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Thinking #My Favorite
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Hollywood #Pianist
I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Strange
And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.
-- Skitch Henderson

#East #Television #Hollywood
I listen to everything.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Listening
While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music.
-- Skitch Henderson

#Two #Orchestra #Golden

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