The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.
Interpretation
Creating music that resonates with others brings immense joy.
This quote reflects the joy and fulfillment that comes from sharing one's musical creations with others. Marvin Hamlisch emphasizes the thrill of having people connect with your songs to the extent that they can remember them and even hum along, highlighting the powerful bond between a creator and their audience.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a music workshop to inspire budding composers.
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
The novelist does not long to see the_x000D_ lion eat grass. He realizes that one and_x000D_ the same God created the wolf and the_x000D_ lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his_x000D_ work was good.”
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?
We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
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