#om

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#berlin #broadway #broadway musicals #composers #drawn

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#calming #composer #desire #down #energy

I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#counts #days #hour #i #i think

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#arrived #batch #in the past #letters #like

Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#anymore #audience #back #cd #classical

You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#feel #invites #know #makes #me

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#ago #believing #better #both #comes

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#football #grief #his #kid #lost

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#also #among #burn #compared #enemy

I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#did #drove #i #miserable #much