Ray Conniff

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

I didn't get paid. I didn't even care that I didn't get paid.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

I did do Broadway for a little less than a year and realized quickly I don't have a passion for it and, more importantly, I don't have a talent in it.