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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. "

" And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood. "

" But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along. "

" Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow. "

" I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras. "

" If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long. "

" I grew up on film scores and scores from films. "

" I had had a classical education prior to that. "

" I listen to everything. "

" In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent. "

" I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now. "

" I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood. "

" I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now. "

" I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. "

" 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. "

" Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market. "

" That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte. "

" Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear. "

" We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts. "

" Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession. "

" Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course. "

" We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do. "

" 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. "

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