Compositions Quotes

(on Sergio Leone) I spun off Sergio and he spun off me. I think we worked well together. I like his compositions. He has a very good eye. I liked him, I liked his sense of humor, but I feel it was mutual. He liked dealing with the kind of character I was putting together.

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn`t much time.

Part of Michael`s uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

I`d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

(An Atlantic Records executive sent Ben-Ari to Wyclef after he spotted her playing at an open mic night in New York.) I had my own steady gigs and I was writing my own compositions. They where very R&B, ... And I was very serious about jazz. Wynton Marsalis was on my last CD.

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.