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.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

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

I'm not an intellectual composer.

Any good music must be an innovation.

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.

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