When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

Well, thats the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.