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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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