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People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.

I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

And no, having the hits is just more work.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.