I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes enamored melody song
As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices. Mike Stoller blackinterestmusic Change image and share on social
I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me. Mike Stoller barnbeatblack share on social
Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I'd just keep playing it and playing it. Mike Stoller bigdancehear share on social
So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. Michel Legrand castdecidedirector Change image and share on social
Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion. Dennis Prager agealternativeamerican Change image and share on social
