Skitch Henderson Quotes
"I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Hollywood, Orchestras)
"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."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Music, Being, Guest, Popular, Stars, Writing)
"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."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Business, People, School, Years)
"I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Experience, Favorite, Now)
"I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Hollywood)
"I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Business, Now, Right)
"I listen to everything."
- Skitch Henderson
"I grew up on film scores and scores from films."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Film)
"Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Longevity, Tomorrow)
"But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Artists)
"If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Business)
"We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Business, Today)
"I had had a classical education prior to that."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Education)
"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Hollywood, Television)
"Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Orchestras)
"That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Music, Mind, Television, Years)
"We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Music, Light, Programming)
"Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Artists)
"Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Business, Profession)
"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."
- Skitch Henderson
(Related: Money, Music, Now, Orchestras)
"Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear."
- Skitch Henderson
"In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent."
- Skitch Henderson