Latest Richard Sherman Quotes from Interviews

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• You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."

  Richard Sherman

  Children, Men, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.

  Richard Sherman

  Mother, Father, Track

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• It's an awesome feeling being a father, because you never think you can fall in love with something so quickly. It was almost immediate.

  Richard Sherman

  Falling In Love, Father, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

  Richard Sherman

  Book, Thinking, Focus

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

  Richard Sherman

  Fundamentals

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Sometimes you have to be somebody you're not.

  Richard Sherman

  Sometimes

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way.

  Richard Sherman

  Believe, Thinking, Way

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• A lot of people have been asking whether I would ever go into politics. I'm not sure I would.

  Richard Sherman

  People, Asking, Not Sure

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

  Richard Sherman

  Kissing, People, Giving

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun.

  Richard Sherman

  Fun, Voice, Experts

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• The edge came from the slights I've had throughout my life, the slights I have dealt with through the entirety of my life. It wasn't one day when somebody said something and that made me upset and now I'm over it. I'm not going to stop playing with an edge because that's what got me here. That's just how I play the game. I can't play any other way.

  Richard Sherman

  Games, Play, Upset

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.

  Richard Sherman

  Giving, Firsts, Give Me

  Source: bleacherreport.com

• Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it doesn't demand songs, you'll have underscore.

  Richard Sherman

  Song, Stories, Demand

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I consider every one of the Disney films that Bob & I worked on, to have been the luckiest break any two songwriters could have ever had. They all aimed at quality and timelessness. That's why they live over the years.

  Richard Sherman

  Years, Two, Quality

  "Richard Sherman Talks The AristoCats". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 5, 2008.

• First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally...it's hard to explain.

  Richard Sherman

  Artist, Personality, Stories

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Walt had a seat-of-the-pants approach on what he wanted musically. We kind of 'read' the boss and had a very high batting average, but there were occasions when he felt we had just written the wrong piece for the situation he wanted. We invariably listened to what he wanted - he was very descriptive in what he wanted and we could read him. We'd go back to the drawing board and work out what he wanted. He was a great inspiration, but a tough taskmaster.

  Richard Sherman

  Inspiration, Average, Drawing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters, moods and situations. If these elements changed in any way, songs - no matter how good they were - were discarded. Others were written for the new scenes. Many times, character songs were dropped because characters were dropped...sequences were dropped etc.

  Richard Sherman

  Song, Character, Elements

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• We always feel there are 3 parts to the song. The most important part is the reason it should exist. Our process usually consists of me sitting at the piano & Bob hovering over it. We throw ideas out...I start to play something...he'll hum something to make it better. He'll throw a line to me, I'll twist it to make it better and we scramble around like that for sometimes hours and days, 'til we both agree we've got something to show! That's how it works!

  Richard Sherman

  Song, Play, Ideas

  "Richard Sherman Talks The AristoCats". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 5, 2008.

• My brother & I have always said that to write a song, it takes all the experiences of your life, plus the time it takes to write it! To be specific, yes, sometimes a song takes place in one session - together in one day.

  Richard Sherman

  Song, Brother, Writing

  "Richard Sherman Talks The AristoCats". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 5, 2008.

• Sometimes, months elapse before we've completed the song completely. There's no set rule. Something inside of you says - 'now you can present it!' If one of us feels it's not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don't present it.

  Richard Sherman

  Song, Months, Sometimes

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• The challenge in writing the songs for The Aristocats truly fell on the animators & director of the film. Robert & I wrote the initial songs for the film, just prior to leaving full-time employment at the Walt Disney Studios. Therefore, some of the songs we wrote for The Aristocats were never used. I believe, therefore, the challenge fell upon the makers of the film to select what songs made the final cut.

  Richard Sherman

  Song, Believe, Writing

  "Richard Sherman Talks The AristoCats". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 5, 2008.

• Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.

  Richard Sherman

  Song, Motivation, Character

  "Richard Sherman Talks The AristoCats". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 5, 2008.