I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sisters lessons. – Marvin Hamlisch
I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us. – Marvin Hamlisch
There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests. – Marvin Hamlisch
Maybe Im old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals – particularly the endings of shows. – Marvin Hamlisch
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom