Skitch Henderson Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

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.

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

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

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

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

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

I listen to everything.

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

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.

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

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

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.