Mike Stoller Quotes
- As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.
- I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.
- I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.
- I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far…
- We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving…