Burt Bacharach Quotes
"I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Music, Time, Talent, Thought, American, School, Students)
"I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Girls, School)
"A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't."
- Burt Bacharach
"The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Music, Now, Order, Right, Thinking)
"I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Feeling)
"I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Thinking)
"I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Truth, Mistake, People, Wrong)
"If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Hope, Apology, Country, Humanity)
"It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Love, Army, Kids, Want)
"Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: May)
"Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: People)
"Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Football, Hell)
"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Thought, First, Word)