English - Composer | January 29, 1931 -
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.
Leslie Bricusse
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'Retirement' is a dirty word. Luckily, I can carry on working until I drop, provided I retain my mental abilities.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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