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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

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I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

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I would have been a geologist.

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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

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Gotta watch out for directors.

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By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: March 22nd, 1930

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