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I think I’ve been very lucky to work with men who were really original craftsmen. Men like Arlen, who are not satisfied with merely turning out tunes. Always trying. Burton Lane is certainly the same as far as that is concerned. Vernon Duke was also dissatisfied with the ordinary. Sammy Fain was, I would say, more on the common denominator but he had a great sense of lovely melody which also seems to be part of me, too. I like a completely outgoing melodic phrase such as Kern wrote, although it was harder for me to write to the Kern sweetness and light. But there’s some specific hangover in me that makes me love that kind of melody…. And the thing is that what I like to do is to test myself in almost every direction. I don’t like to stay in one spot. I like to try a new tangent, to explore. That’s why I’ll never be a great golfer, because I’ve got to keep changing my game. I could be a hell of a golfer, but I can’t stick to one thing! I say “No, there must be something else!” It’s a kind of necessity for variety.

Yip quoted in Max Wilk, They’re Playing Our Song
Atheneum – New York – 1973, p. 229

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