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» I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

» Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

» That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

» I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

» You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

» I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.

» I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

» I love doing concert music.

» I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

» Any good music must be an innovation.

» I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

» I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

» Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

» When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

» I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

» In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

» Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

» I'm not an intellectual composer.

» I write emotional music.

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