Skitch Henderson quotes
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“Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.”
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“I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.”
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“I grew up on film scores and scores from films.”
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“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.”
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“Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.”
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“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.”
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“I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.”
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“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.”
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“Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.”
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“Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.”
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“In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.”
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“I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.”
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“I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now.”
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“I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.”
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“I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.”
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“And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.”
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“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
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