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Mike Stoller
American Musician
Born: May 13, 1933
Black Fans Music My Own Thought Young
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It wasn't until 'Smokey Joe's' came out that I actually got to step out from behind the curtain and meet our 'fans.' Mike Stoller
Fans Meet Our Out Joe Step Until Smokey Got Came Behind Curtain Actually
As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices. Mike Stoller
Music Black Our Would-Be Black Music Only Voices Write Songs Songwriters Wanted Interest
Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I'd just keep playing it and playing it. Mike Stoller
Music First Big Think Dances Record Piece Well Heard Up Stood Just Loved Richard Really Keep Ever Play Played Playing
I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me. Mike Stoller
Alone Me Old Thought Black Young Corner Teenager Hiding Out See Pianist Piano He Knocked Years Heard Upright Just Eight Barn Playing
I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it. Mike Stoller
Change Way Melody Write Like Until Get Then
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 greater than my ability. Mike Stoller
Young Jazz Kid Musician Ability Piano Greater Always Very Than Taste Wanted Young Kid Far Jazz Musician Playing
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 Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books. Mike Stoller
Time Great Writing Thought Assumed Cole Porter Everyone Books Berlin Posterity Temporary Never Had Songs Written Like Supposed Period Because Comic Comic Books Were Been Hammerstein Rodgers Standards Porter Things

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