Skitch Henderson Quotes

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

  Skitch Henderson

  Tomorrow, Longevity, Happens

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• I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

  Skitch Henderson

  Music, Artist, Jazz

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• I listen to everything.

  Skitch Henderson

  Listening, Attention

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• You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.

  Skitch Henderson

  Real, Ice, Light

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• 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.

  Skitch Henderson

  School, Years, Nbc

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

  Skitch Henderson

  Germany, Orchestra, Munich

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

  Skitch Henderson

  Radio, Disappear

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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.

  Skitch Henderson

  Stars, Writing, Play

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

  Skitch Henderson

  Film, Grew Up, Score

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

  Skitch Henderson

  Artist, Different, Wells

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

  Skitch Henderson

  Orchestra

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

  Skitch Henderson

  Independent, Way, Starting

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

  Skitch Henderson

  House, Demise, Orchestra

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

  Skitch Henderson

  Thinking, My Favorite

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• I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

  Skitch Henderson

  Hollywood, Pianist, Studios

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

  Skitch Henderson

  Strange, Advocating, Right Now

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

  Skitch Henderson

  Easter, Television, Hollywood

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• 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.

  Skitch Henderson

  Two, Looks, Orchestra

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