Skitch Henderson Quote: 'I started off as a studio ...' @FEELquotes

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

Dan Hawkins

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There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

Baz Luhrmann

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Catherine Zeta-Jones started out like me. Her big break in Hollywood was in 'Zorro.'

Lucy Griffiths

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Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.

Frank Oz

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When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

Agnes Obel

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Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.

Eva Green

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I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made.

Richard Greenberg

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My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

John E. Walker

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I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Ben Hecht

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I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.

Baltasar Kormakur

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I really do like the independent way of working. You don't get much studio intrusion compared to when you're working on a big Hollywood film where there tends to always be loads of people interfering. The only problem, though, with independent features is that they are hard to sell.

Steven Bauer

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The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

Jeff Buckley

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I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

Patricia Riggen

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In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in the mirror, surrounded by the classical music, that's when I started to fall in love with dance.

Misty Copeland

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Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

Jeffrey Tate

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I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

Obie Trice

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I'm lucky enough to be doing my dream job, but my second dream job would be to be a concert pianist.

Robert Emms

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Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

Christian McKay

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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

Tania Raymonde

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I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.

Stan Freberg

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