Burt Bacharach > Quotes

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.”
― Burt Bacharach

“I have notes in my bathroom, yellow notes, and I stick 'em on the mirror, things that happened that were uplifting boosters for me. Notes that say, "Today is special, make today count." And then I have one note on the mirror in the middle that says, "Look at the other notes.”
― Burt Bacharach

“I never liked hearing anyone say I was the new George Gershwin, because I knew I could have never even carried that man's music case. If George Gershwin hadn't died when he was thirty-nine years old, there is no knowing how much more great music he would have written.”
― Burt Bacharach

“John F. Kennedy was killed in 1963.”
― Burt Bacharach, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music

“she was still the same woman who had gone to bed with me wearing a bathing suit.”
― Burt Bacharach, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music

“The accent should not be “dream of you.” The accent should be “dream of you.”
― Burt Bacharach, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music

“Oy vey.”
― Burt Bacharach, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music

“Even though my relationship with Dionne was always strictly professional,”
― Burt Bacharach, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music

“Chuck Barris,”
― Burt Bacharach, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music

“the plain C major chord just seemed so vanilla to me.”
― Burt Bacharach, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music

“high cheekbones and long legs,”
― Burt Bacharach, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music