20 Quotes by Leslie Bricusse

It's a new dawnIt's a new dayIt's a new life for me And I'm feeling good

I think 'Scrooge' is the best of the Christmas stories. Every child warms to it because it's about one man's transformation. It's saying that it's never too late to change, and that's a good feeling to have at Christmas.

I never try to predict what will happen to any project, ever. There are so many factors. Does the public like the subject matter, the way you handle it?

If you can't get a word at first, it's always waiting somewhere, and it's just a case of finding it.

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.

When I write a song, I hear the music and words at the same time - one suggests the form of the other.

When I wake up, if I can't figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it's there immediately. I don't know if it's the subconscious mind working, but it just happens.

As a complete score, I love 'Sherlock Holmes' - but we cast it badly. We put Ron Moody into the part - a great Fagin, not a great Sherlock Holmes.

I wanted to grow up to be George and Ira Gershwin from the age of about six.