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

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Source : "Marvin Hamlisch obituary" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2012.

Marvin Hamlisch

#Play Quotes #People Quotes #Evening Quotes

“Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance.”
“I'm merely a fan of fashion from high end to streetwear, from Nike to Comme des Garcons.”
“Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.”
“The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.”
“We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.”
“Just like in any other movie, too, we've had car troubles. We've had issues with weather. We've had issues with you name it. You can't predict this tough but as long as you go at it with the mindset that it doesn't matter what happens, we'll just figure out a way around it - that's the reason that I'm here.”
“What's up, I'm DJ Danger. Some people might think it's dangerous to have an unbrella inside, but i am dangerous!”
“If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing." Why make a painting if you don't feel like you have to for something inside of yourself? Why make a song if you don't feel like you have to because there's something that you need to get out? And when you're an actor and you're not performing text that you've written, I think there's this bizarre disconnect with the must-ness of it.”

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