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" I was talking to a TV bigwig, and he said, 'Nobody under 35 knows who Sammy Davis is.' Well, you'll hear angry denials of that from younger people. "

Leslie Bricusse

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" As a complete score, I love 'Sherlock Holmes' - but we cast it badly. We put Ron Moody into the part - a great Fagin, not a great Sherlock Holmes. "

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" I don't believe in giving in to old age. "

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" It takes a while to get a show on, and I've a number that have not yet been produced. I want to see all of them produced spectacularly before I pack it in. "

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" My view is that the great songwriting happened between 1920 and 1960. We're all, in our different ways, descended from the great songwriters of that era. "

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" When I write a song, I hear the music and words at the same time - one suggests the form of the other. "

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" When you live in a world of imagination, your imagination doesn't necessarily grow old with you. "

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" I think we have to assume we have one life. Though, having said that, I did write a song called 'You Only Live Twice.' I'll settle for that. "

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" I never try to predict what will happen to any project, ever. There are so many factors. Does the public like the subject matter, the way you handle it? "

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" The film musical is a very strange animal. They can bite you in the back, or they can do very well for you. "

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" Writing songs and lyrics is not that different from doing the 'Times' crossword every morning. They both give you a good mental workout. "

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" When I wake up, if I can't figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it's there immediately. I don't know if it's the subconscious mind working, but it just happens. "

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" It's much easier to write a song for a musical than just writing a song because, writing for a musical, you know what the story is about, so you know what the songs have got to say. "

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" I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better. "

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" I fell in love with the idea of writing songs when I was a child. I thought I was going to be a journalist at first, but I gradually fell in love with all these great writers like Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, who were at the peak of their powers then. "

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" I wanted to grow up to be George and Ira Gershwin from the age of about six. "

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