George Martin Quotes (24 Quotes)

I was asked to do score by the Director, who was a charming Canadian, a really nice guy, George Dunning was his name. He's dead now, unfortunately.

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.

Polls are a passive conduit, but when citizens are out going door-to-door, expressing serious commitment, getting thousands of signatures, and getting resolutions passed, it sends a direct message to members of Congress. It's very clearly illustrated by the Katrina tragedy. Local guard and reserves are supposed to serve their own communities and they weren't available because of Iraq. Equipment that could have been used to dig dirt for the levees was in Iraq.

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.

This referendum reflects public opinion at this time.

I think we will achieve a real sense of drama with the music. The audience will feel as though they are actually in the room with the band.

But when Brian committed them to the picture and he said that they would provide new songs, they said, Well, we're not going to write any decent songs, we'll give them all the rejects we didn't really want.

We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.

In Yellow Submarine, we used chains that were there and all sorts of bowls and things. And of course, we used bowls of water too. And bottles with straws, blowing them into the water, to get the effect of submarines surfacing, that kind of thing. It was nice to do because it, we were all being very inventive. And it was fun, it was like a party almost.

I am thrilled to death with this. This has given us everything we were looking for and even more. This has given us an opportunity to grow.

I asked him about it when we were together a couple of weeks ago. He's always been apprehensive, having been a bridesmaid all these years. He really didn't want to tip his hand. But I asked him, 'Harry, how would you feel if they finally came to their senses and elected you' He said it would be one of the proudest days of his life.

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

I am confident that Richard will continue to promote and develop Air as a world-class recording facility.

Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.

a good leader, trustworthy, with the potential to be a good Marine, either as an officer or enlisted. He's dedicated to this program as he is to the fire department. He's also a good trainer and has taught three recruit classes.

It's further evidence that there's a mechanism that's modulating life span that works throughout the living world. And it might even apply to us.

You'd use recorded effects and then they'd have to come off discs. So we tried to make our own, and we used to have all sorts of things. We used to have roller skates for making train noises over rails and I remember once trying to effect the noise of someone's head being chopped off. I used a cabbage for that, it was very effective.

He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

Logan's used to pressure. He won the junior amateur (last summer) in a playoff, ... He holds up well. He just peaked at the right time. He knows how to control his emotions.

I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.

I think Harry is one of the two or three best middle linebackers in history as far as I'm concerned. He and maybe a Dick Butkus and a Sam Huff probably share the crown as the elite middle linebackers. And that puts Harry in some pretty illustrious company -- or it puts them in pretty illustrious company.

I mean there were tambourines, and a gong and that kind of thing. And all sorts of weird things, whistles and even a little cupboard with a door that opened and shut so you could get the noise of a door opening if you wanted to have someone coming in and